LA MORITA MEXICO YOUTH MISSION HOMEBUILDING TRIP TO TIJUANA
Recently the Board of Directors of LMMYM met to review our choices for the 2020
trip and discuss next steps. Considering the best information available at this point
in time we have decided to postpone the homebuilding trip until 2021. We
recognize this is disheartening news to receive. We want to thank everyone who
has participated in the preparations for the trip—the youth, the families, the adult
sponsors, and all of the donors and people behind the scenes.
Please know that although the trip is postponed to next year, we will apply all
donated funds to building the homes for the previously selected three families next
year. We are keeping in contact with the Oblate Missionaries in Tijuana, and they
and the youth of the parish are focusing on delivering for those who need it. Please
keep them all in your prayers.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. In the meantime we
wish you good health and high spirits.
Sincerely,
The LMMYM Board of Directors
Maurice D’Lima, Donna Walton, Lori Montalvo, Tess Costanzo, Emma Carella, David
DeMaria & Tom Trowbridge
Recently the Board of Directors of LMMYM met to review our choices for the 2020
trip and discuss next steps. Considering the best information available at this point
in time we have decided to postpone the homebuilding trip until 2021. We
recognize this is disheartening news to receive. We want to thank everyone who
has participated in the preparations for the trip—the youth, the families, the adult
sponsors, and all of the donors and people behind the scenes.
Please know that although the trip is postponed to next year, we will apply all
donated funds to building the homes for the previously selected three families next
year. We are keeping in contact with the Oblate Missionaries in Tijuana, and they
and the youth of the parish are focusing on delivering for those who need it. Please
keep them all in your prayers.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns. In the meantime we
wish you good health and high spirits.
Sincerely,
The LMMYM Board of Directors
Maurice D’Lima, Donna Walton, Lori Montalvo, Tess Costanzo, Emma Carella, David
DeMaria & Tom Trowbridge
What is this trip all about?
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La Morita Mexico Youth Mission is fortunate that God has granted us the means and the opportunity to positively impact three families in La Morita, Mexico every year! The good we do has a ripple effect, like a stone being thrown in a pond. This goes far beyond the families we serve; the teenagers who participate in this act of selfless service are impacted profoundly and go on to become leaders within their communities.
Since 1992, Donna and Jack Walton have led groups of teenagers and adults from Concord, CA area on a mission to Mexico to build houses for those in need over Easter Week. Over the years, people of countless faiths have made this journey with us to celebrate and participate in Our Lord's Resurrection, each by giving a little of ourselves to help others. Not everyone is able to travel to Mexico, but our hearts are filled with gratitude for the many ways they are able to help. Gifts of time, money and material have been granted so freely and with such loving generosity, right here in the US. The teens write letters to friends and relatives asking for support, sell tickets to a benefit dinner and hand out "uncommon stock" offers after masses in order to raise a total of $45,000 to build three houses. Thank you to all the people who have enabled us to go on this mission each year. We pray for God's bounty to bless all the families we have been privileged to help, because in helping them we too have been blessed. |
