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2016 Summer Mission to tijuana, Mexico & san diego
june 25 - July 2, 2016
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This trip is open to all Wesley students and alumni as we will be serving alongside one of Wesley's alumnae, Celeste Caton, who is a Global Mission Fellow of the United Methodist Church commissioned to serve with the Iglesia Metodista de México (Methodist Church of Mexico) in Tijuana, México.
Cost: $850 (includes flight, ground transportation, lodging, food, and mission expenses)
Space is VERY limited as we can only take a team of up to 15!
Info Meeting: 8:30 PM Sunday April 24 in the TV room at Wesley
Tentative Schedule:
Saturday June 25
Fly from Charlotte to San Diego
Eat dinner in San Diego
Travel to Tijuana
Orientation & reflection at migrant shelter (Casa del Migrante)
Sunday June 26
Discussion time at the border wall to learn about the history of the US/Mexico border, the development of the wall, and the background of El Faro Border Church.
Border worship service
Dinner at Casa del Migrante & Evening Reflection
Monday June 27 - Wednesday, June 29
Each day we will be visiting, volunteering, and working with different groups and ministries throughout the city of Tijuana who serve the migrant, immigrant, and deported populations. Wednesday will be a half day and then we will have the afternoon and evening open to enjoy the city (which means eat lots of tacos). Details about the groups we will be working with are below.
Thursday June 30 - Friday July 1
Thursday Morning - return to San Diego to stay at a local church.
For our final two days we will be working with local ministries and agencies who serve the migrant and immigrant populations stateside. More information can be found below concerning these visits and the groups we will be with in San Diego.
One of these two evenings we will have time to enjoy the city of San Diego!
Saturday July 2
Fly from San Diego to Charlotte
Info You Need To Know:
Please plan on attending the info meeting: 8:30 PM Sunday April 24 in the TV room at Wesley
Do I need a passport?
Yes, you do need a passport.
Who will we be working with?
Casa del Migrante - Provides assistance to men who have been deported to Mexico from the United States. They receive 3 meals a day, a shower, clean clothing, and are allowed to stay at the center for up to 12 days. They also provide medical care, counseling, resources for job training and placement, and spiritual guidance.
Salvation Army Men’s Shelter - Provides assistance to the migrant, deported, and less fortunate population within Tijuana. Services include shelter, meals, clean clothing, showers, medical attention, spiritual guidance, job opportunities, etc.
Salvation Army Women and Children’s Shelter - Assists women and children who have been recently deported from the United States. Provides housing, food, clean clothing, showers, medical attention, spiritual guidance, individual counseling/therapy, social services, fellowship activities, etc.
Deported Veterans Support House - The Deported Veterans group is made up of people who served in the US Military in exchange for citizenship, but who were in turn deported to Mexico. They strive for family reunification, do advocacy work, and promote immigration reform.
Dreamers’ Moms - These are women who have been deported into Mexico after having spent most of their lives living without documentation in the United States, who have American-born children. They work towards family reunification, are highly involved in immigration reform on both sides of the border, advocacy, and also provide humanitarian aid to mothers who have been deported.
Padre Chava - Assists the migrant and homeless population of Tijuana. Padre Chava provides over 1,200 hot breakfasts every morning, health attention, phone calls, showers, haircuts, clean clothing, computer classes, legal counsel, psychological attention, and housing.
El Faro Border Ministries & Friendship Park - Friendship Park is the historic border meeting place at the western edge of the US-Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Friends and families from both nations have been meeting at this place for generations. Every Sunday afternoon people from both nations will gather to share communion, a reminder that neither God nor God's people will be limited by national boundaries.
Binational Garden - The garden is located inside the bi-national Friendship Park. The garden started as a project of Border encuentro to bring people with the common interest of promoting native flora together to make friends across the border fence while collaborating to improve the region.
Border Angels - The organization seeks to stop unnecessary deaths of migrants traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-discrimination crimes. Volunteers periodically travel to border areas to maintain water stations in the desert, provide outreach to migrants that live in Canyons in North County with food, water and used clothing, and support Home Depot Day Laborers by going there to build relationships and donate food and water.
Chicano Park - A 32,000 square meter park located beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican-immigrant community in central San Diego, California. The park is home to the country's largest collection of outdoor murals, as well as various sculptures, earthworks, and an architectural piece dedicated to the cultural heritage of the community.
Casa Familiar - A widely recognized authority when it comes to understanding the unique challenges faced by border communities. They offer over fifty programs spanning the program areas of Human Services, Community Development, Recreation Services, Technology, Arts and Culture, and Education. The mission of Casa Familiar allows the dignity, power, and worth within individuals and families to flourish, by enhancing the quality of life through education, advocacy, service programming, housing and community economic development.
Southwest Key - Southwest Key Programs is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to keep young people out of institutions and empower them with the skills, knowledge and tools they need to succeed. Through an exceptionally competent and diverse staff, Southwest Key empowers youth and their families to make positive changes in their lives including at our 23 immigrant youth shelters in Texas, Arizona and California. Unaccompanied children enter the United States every year from countries all over the world. Some come to escape extreme violence in their home countries; some are trafficked into the country, some come to work, others to escape physical abuse and desperate poverty. For nearly 20 years, Southwest Key’s Unaccompanied Minors Program has been an integral partner in the U.S. response, sheltering immigrant children under 18 years of age who arrive without a parent or guardian.
United States Border Patrol - We will have the opportunity to tour Border Patrol facilities and speak with various BP agents concerning their perspectives on immigration, migration, and deportation.
Cost: $850 (includes flight, ground transportation, lodging, food, and mission expenses)
Space is VERY limited as we can only take a team of up to 15!
Info Meeting: 8:30 PM Sunday April 24 in the TV room at Wesley
Tentative Schedule:
Saturday June 25
Fly from Charlotte to San Diego
Eat dinner in San Diego
Travel to Tijuana
Orientation & reflection at migrant shelter (Casa del Migrante)
Sunday June 26
Discussion time at the border wall to learn about the history of the US/Mexico border, the development of the wall, and the background of El Faro Border Church.
Border worship service
Dinner at Casa del Migrante & Evening Reflection
Monday June 27 - Wednesday, June 29
Each day we will be visiting, volunteering, and working with different groups and ministries throughout the city of Tijuana who serve the migrant, immigrant, and deported populations. Wednesday will be a half day and then we will have the afternoon and evening open to enjoy the city (which means eat lots of tacos). Details about the groups we will be working with are below.
Thursday June 30 - Friday July 1
Thursday Morning - return to San Diego to stay at a local church.
For our final two days we will be working with local ministries and agencies who serve the migrant and immigrant populations stateside. More information can be found below concerning these visits and the groups we will be with in San Diego.
One of these two evenings we will have time to enjoy the city of San Diego!
Saturday July 2
Fly from San Diego to Charlotte
Info You Need To Know:
Please plan on attending the info meeting: 8:30 PM Sunday April 24 in the TV room at Wesley
Do I need a passport?
Yes, you do need a passport.
Who will we be working with?
Casa del Migrante - Provides assistance to men who have been deported to Mexico from the United States. They receive 3 meals a day, a shower, clean clothing, and are allowed to stay at the center for up to 12 days. They also provide medical care, counseling, resources for job training and placement, and spiritual guidance.
Salvation Army Men’s Shelter - Provides assistance to the migrant, deported, and less fortunate population within Tijuana. Services include shelter, meals, clean clothing, showers, medical attention, spiritual guidance, job opportunities, etc.
Salvation Army Women and Children’s Shelter - Assists women and children who have been recently deported from the United States. Provides housing, food, clean clothing, showers, medical attention, spiritual guidance, individual counseling/therapy, social services, fellowship activities, etc.
Deported Veterans Support House - The Deported Veterans group is made up of people who served in the US Military in exchange for citizenship, but who were in turn deported to Mexico. They strive for family reunification, do advocacy work, and promote immigration reform.
Dreamers’ Moms - These are women who have been deported into Mexico after having spent most of their lives living without documentation in the United States, who have American-born children. They work towards family reunification, are highly involved in immigration reform on both sides of the border, advocacy, and also provide humanitarian aid to mothers who have been deported.
Padre Chava - Assists the migrant and homeless population of Tijuana. Padre Chava provides over 1,200 hot breakfasts every morning, health attention, phone calls, showers, haircuts, clean clothing, computer classes, legal counsel, psychological attention, and housing.
El Faro Border Ministries & Friendship Park - Friendship Park is the historic border meeting place at the western edge of the US-Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Friends and families from both nations have been meeting at this place for generations. Every Sunday afternoon people from both nations will gather to share communion, a reminder that neither God nor God's people will be limited by national boundaries.
Binational Garden - The garden is located inside the bi-national Friendship Park. The garden started as a project of Border encuentro to bring people with the common interest of promoting native flora together to make friends across the border fence while collaborating to improve the region.
Border Angels - The organization seeks to stop unnecessary deaths of migrants traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-discrimination crimes. Volunteers periodically travel to border areas to maintain water stations in the desert, provide outreach to migrants that live in Canyons in North County with food, water and used clothing, and support Home Depot Day Laborers by going there to build relationships and donate food and water.
Chicano Park - A 32,000 square meter park located beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in Barrio Logan, a predominantly Mexican American and Mexican-immigrant community in central San Diego, California. The park is home to the country's largest collection of outdoor murals, as well as various sculptures, earthworks, and an architectural piece dedicated to the cultural heritage of the community.
Casa Familiar - A widely recognized authority when it comes to understanding the unique challenges faced by border communities. They offer over fifty programs spanning the program areas of Human Services, Community Development, Recreation Services, Technology, Arts and Culture, and Education. The mission of Casa Familiar allows the dignity, power, and worth within individuals and families to flourish, by enhancing the quality of life through education, advocacy, service programming, housing and community economic development.
Southwest Key - Southwest Key Programs is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to keep young people out of institutions and empower them with the skills, knowledge and tools they need to succeed. Through an exceptionally competent and diverse staff, Southwest Key empowers youth and their families to make positive changes in their lives including at our 23 immigrant youth shelters in Texas, Arizona and California. Unaccompanied children enter the United States every year from countries all over the world. Some come to escape extreme violence in their home countries; some are trafficked into the country, some come to work, others to escape physical abuse and desperate poverty. For nearly 20 years, Southwest Key’s Unaccompanied Minors Program has been an integral partner in the U.S. response, sheltering immigrant children under 18 years of age who arrive without a parent or guardian.
United States Border Patrol - We will have the opportunity to tour Border Patrol facilities and speak with various BP agents concerning their perspectives on immigration, migration, and deportation.
