For quite a few months now, the world has been experiencing an unprecedented season of quarantine. Our prayers are with all of those affected by COVID-19. The Mission, in both Mexico and Romania, have been following the respective governments' guidelines in order to keep our communities, kids and staff safe. Because of this, we have not hosted a mission trip since February. You can read more about how that has affected the ministry here.

For the first time in 32 years, we did not have any of you join us for a summer trip! We have sincerely missed your partnership and the momentum that each of you bring to our work in the nations. In this time, we have been intentionally focusing on areas like infrastructure, administration and of course, continuing to care for all of our incredible kids. Keep an eye out for a new way you can partner with us and advocate for our kids, from afar!

Currently, both Romania and Mexico are still closed to non essential travel. Until that is lifted, we will not be hosting any missions trips. With that being said, we are accepting bookings for 2021 and would love to help you with that. If you would like to start planning your next trip with us, please don't hesitate to reach out to our team at groups@themissioninc.org.

We are praying that you and your family are safe and healthy.

_______________
The Mission Team

Delia is 12 years old and has been part of our 12-hour care program in Romania since 2018. On one of the very first scouting trips our team took to Romania, they met Delia in one of the Roma [Gypsy] villages outside of town. As the team walked through the village, asking God what He wanted to do in Romania, Delia followed. She was very hungry for affection and attention; Delia never left their side that day in 2016. 

The village where Delia lives with her parents and older siblings is called Sapte Noiembrie; it is extremely impoverished.  As soon as we opened up the 12-hour care program, after the scouting trip in 2016, Delia joined The Mission family. Even before we officially opened, she would often come to the facility just to see what was happening. Now, she is with us every weekday and even joins us for church, on her own, where she volunteers in the children’s church classes. That is where we have seen her come alive! Delia has a true gift for teaching and is brilliant with younger children. We are honored that God coordinated that day in 2016, just to make sure that Delia got to be part of The Mission family in Romania and experience His love through us. Together, we are dreaming with Delia for her future and cannot wait for the day that we get to see her graduate university and become the teacher that she is dreaming of being. Partner with us by sponsoring Delia or a child like her, today.

In Mexico, our incredible education team orchestrated a pop-up graduation for our 90 students that were graduating from preschool, elementary, jr high and high school! It was our biggest graduating class yet! Although we couldn’t host a graduation on-site, we are so thankful to have been able to love them in this way. Five of our high school graduates, three of whom grew up in our orphan-care program, have even decided to continue on and join our School of Missions! They will be starting classes this September; we are immensely proud and cannot wait to see how God moves through each of their lives.

CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES

At The Mission campuses in both Romania and Mexico, we have over 450 children enrolled in K-12th grade and our family care programs. Our family care program, at the Mexico campus, was opened in 1991. The elementary, jr high and high school opened later in the following years. That journey began after seeing a massive need in the communities surrounding our campus in Tijuana, Mexico; childcare was expensive and out of reach for most families. Along with that, most families needed two incomes which meant that both parents were working. After looking into it, The Mission team found that many teenagers dropped out of school to stay home and take care of younger siblings.

As of 2018, we are honored to be not only serving families in Mexico but also in Romania. We do this through providing a safe place for kids while their parents are working! Due to COVID-19, we have been unable to gather children enrolled in 12- hour care programs, on campus, in either Mexico or Romania. Since March, our team has been making sure all of those children are still being cared for through regular social work visits. During those visits we determine how to love and serve their families during this time of quarantine. For the families with two working parents, who are unable to cease working, The Mission team has provided in-home childcare.

Normally, those kids would be with us from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM. While with us they would get two meals, education and take part in our after school program. Because of that, we have been delivering food to families each week. Since then, several families have shared with us testimonies of God’s provision during this time. A couple of families who said they did not necessarily need the food donation, were giving it away to others in their neighborhood. They shared that ever since then, they have seen God’s faithful hand of provision increase even more in their lives. Please continue to pray with us for the abolishment of the virus and the safety of our kids and team. Thank you for partnering with us!