Mexico House Building Mission Trip
Mexico House Building Mission Trip Team 2019
Check out these presentations from past years: Mexico 2012 Mexico 2013 Mexico 2014 Get a glimpse at past years: |
We are sending a Team in 2026!
Spring Break, April 6-11, 2025 Registration Paperwork & Deposit Due December 7 We'd love for you to join us and be a part of something special! We will build a house for a needy family living in the Tijuana/Tecate area of Mexico. It will be a week of experiences that will change someone else's life and your own. Those eligible are adults and youth starting at 7th grade (6th graders with a parent also going). Cost is a $500 tax deductible donation that pays for all food, transportation, campsite, and building materials. Please note, these fees are subject to change depending on the number of signups. If you need a "Campership", contact John Schempf at [email protected] Registration Deadline is December 7. There will be an Information Team Meeting on Sunday, November 16 at Noon. Questions? Contact the Elim Office. Registration paperwork below. |
History of the Mexico House Building Mission Trip
Coordinators: John Schempf & Catherine Winters
When Amor Ministries began in 1980, many of the poorest families in Mexico were sending their children away to orphanages because they could not provide for them. Orphanages were filling up with children whose parents loved them but lacked the resources to take care of their general needs. Amor’s Founders, Scott & Gayla Congdon, decided to offer an alternative; provide adequate housing to keep families together. Today, Amor continues that mission to share the love of Jesus with families by meeting tangible needs that help keep them together. https://amor.org/comebuildhope/. Of note: it is with great sadness we say goodbye to Gayla Congdon, who passed just last month, but with great joy we continue to celebrate her legacy by going once again to Mexico to build a home and help spread joy and love - AMOR.
Around 1990 Elim Pastors Clay Schmidt and Tim Kellgren organized the first Elim Mexico Housebuilding Mission and, between the two of them, attended every year for about 20 years. John Schempf took over leading for a couple of years and then turned the reigns over to Roger Davis who kept it going and very excellently for the next several years. In 2020 the trip was canceled at the last moment due to Covid and with heartbreaking sadness we had to say goodbye to Roger Davis, who passed the following year. The attempt to restart the Mexico Housebuilding Mission in 2023 almost succeeded. In 2024 we did succeed in sending a team that finished building a house.
In 2025 we headed back again with 15 adults and youth including some Elim members, some scouts and many others to build a home for another family.
Coordinators: John Schempf & Catherine Winters
When Amor Ministries began in 1980, many of the poorest families in Mexico were sending their children away to orphanages because they could not provide for them. Orphanages were filling up with children whose parents loved them but lacked the resources to take care of their general needs. Amor’s Founders, Scott & Gayla Congdon, decided to offer an alternative; provide adequate housing to keep families together. Today, Amor continues that mission to share the love of Jesus with families by meeting tangible needs that help keep them together. https://amor.org/comebuildhope/. Of note: it is with great sadness we say goodbye to Gayla Congdon, who passed just last month, but with great joy we continue to celebrate her legacy by going once again to Mexico to build a home and help spread joy and love - AMOR.
Around 1990 Elim Pastors Clay Schmidt and Tim Kellgren organized the first Elim Mexico Housebuilding Mission and, between the two of them, attended every year for about 20 years. John Schempf took over leading for a couple of years and then turned the reigns over to Roger Davis who kept it going and very excellently for the next several years. In 2020 the trip was canceled at the last moment due to Covid and with heartbreaking sadness we had to say goodbye to Roger Davis, who passed the following year. The attempt to restart the Mexico Housebuilding Mission in 2023 almost succeeded. In 2024 we did succeed in sending a team that finished building a house.
In 2025 we headed back again with 15 adults and youth including some Elim members, some scouts and many others to build a home for another family.
