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May 2014

Hermanas Brigidas – Tecate

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Hermanas Brigidas – Tecate
 
Mission: The motto of the order “Amor meus Crucifixus est” [my love is crucified], condenses and concrete essence of the own charisma lived by Saint Brigidas, since was Christ nailed to the cross. Director : Sister Hillgelisa Villarruel 
 
Project overview: The essence of our spirit is based on the love of the Redeemer and devotion to the mother of God, focusing on contemplation of the passion of Jesus.
 
Location: Tecate, BC, Mexico
 
Current Needs: For information on how you can help this project please contact Hermanas Brigidas – Tecate office at  (665) 655-60-24

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Parroquia Santa Cruz del Apostolado

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Parroquia Santa Cruz del Apostolado
 
Mission: To support the community by providing spiritual needs to the community and promoting the charity in other members of the community
 
Director : Father Jose Lamberto Lopez Rosas 
 
Project overview:This is the 1st year Serving Hands International is assisting this Parish.
 
Location: Tijuana, BC, Mexico
 
Current Needs: For information on how you can help this project please contact Parroquia Santa Cruz del  Apostolado office at (664) 650-40-84

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Parroquia Santo Nino de Atocha (Rosarito)

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Parroquia Santo Nino de Atocha (Rosarito)

Mission: To celebrate the Eucharist, to proclaim the Good News, to encourage stewardship as a way of life, and to grow in faith, justice, love and service to others, and to help our community by provide Eucharist, religious education, social services and food to the local community

Director : Father Juan Manuel Mora Flores

Project overview:

To celebrate the Eucharist, to proclaim the Good News, to encourage stewardship as a way of life, and to grow in faith, justice, love and service to others, and to help our community by provide Eucharist, religious education, social services and food to the local community..

Location: Rosarito, BC, Mexico

Current Needs:For information on how you can help this project please contact Parroquia Santo Nino de Atocha (Rosarito)office at  (661) 613-03-48 

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Parroquia Señor de la Misericordia

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SHI Partner = Parroquia Señor de la Misericordia
 
Mission: Ensure that the sisters and brothers have greater access and ease to approach the Holy Communion.
 
Director :  Father Jose Luis Mendez Davalos
 
Project overview:
To cooperate with the priest when the influx of faithful to the celebrations in the parish. Provide the necessary care for the sick and elders who cannot regularly attend the celebrations at the parish.
The preparation for this Ministry includes: formal instruction that includes classes on Ministry, the Eucharist, and general rules. This is also an opportunity to pray and share with others in the same Ministry.
 
 
Current Needs: For information on how you can help this project please contact Parroquia Señor de la Misericordia office at (664) 381-47-82

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Casa Hogar de Catherine

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Catherine’s Children Home (Rosarito)

Mission: To transform the lives of underprivileged or abandoned, medically fragile special needs children by providing a loving and nurturing home where their emotional, medical, educational, and spiritual needs are met, giving them an opportunity to live to their full potential..

Director : Susan M. Fasino

Project overview: Inspired by the values that Jesus Christ set before us, we follow His example as we work with the world’s most vulnerable children. We will change the way the world cares for abandoned special needs and medically fragile children.

Current Needs:For information on how you can help this project please contact Casa Hogar de Catherine – office (661) 612-36-22  U. S. #(858) 442-0610

 

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Santuario Beata Teresa de Calcuta

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Padres Misioners de la Caridad
(Missionary Fathers of Charity)
Mission: The order of the priests was founded to provide priestly service to the poorest of the poor, spiritual assistance to the Missionaries of Charity and to spread Mother Teresa’s spirituality and mission.
Number Served: 2,000 monthly
Director: Father Sergio Clavijo
Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
SHI Partnership Began: 1985
Project Overview:
In 1984, Mother Teresa founded, with Fr. Joseph Langford, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers. Their purpose is to give priestly service to the poorest of the poor, spiritual assistance to the MC Family, and to spread Mother Teresa’s spirituality and mission. The Fathers became a congregation of diocesan right in Tijuana, Mexico in 1992. The Missionaries assist the community by providing them with spirtual, emotional and physical support. For additional information about this partner, please visit them at: http://www.mcpriests.com/index.htm.
For information on how you can help this project please contact SHI at (619) 582-8200 or email info@servinghands.org.

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Monasterio Asuncion de Maria

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Adoratrices Perpetuas del Santísimo Sacramento
(Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament Order)

Mission:  The Perpetual Adoration of Jesus in the Eucarist, to pray for the needs of the world, and to promote evangelization in the community by providing the faithful a place for adoration and retreat.

Number Served: 16 nuns and 20 families in the community.

Director: Mother Martha L. Noriega

Location: Colonia Azatlan, Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 2010

Project Overview: The order of Adoratrices Perpetuas del Santisimo Sacramento was established Rome, Italy in 1808. They arrived at the Tijuana Diocesis in 1991, and are exclusively devoted to the practice of Perpetual Adoration of Jesus in the Eucarist. The nuns observe formal clausura, or cloister, and it is forbiden for them to go outside their material cloister without permission, or without a good and serious motive such as: fire, leprosy, or contagious malady. Their days are spent in prayer, adoration, and the making of altar-breads, vestments, and church ornaments.

Current Needs:  Continued financial support in order to meet the growing needs of the community.

For information on how you can help this project please contact SHI at (619) 582-8200 or email info@servinghands.org

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Convento San Charbel

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Misioneras del Santísimo Sacramento, Convento San Charbel
(Missionary Sisters of the Sacred, San Charbel Convent)

Mission: Helping those who cannot help themselves.

Number Served: 3,000 per month

Director: Sister Milagros Delgado

Location: Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 1996

Project Overview:
 Convent San Charbel ministers to over 3,000 community members a month. The Sisters also provide bi-weekly food distribution, education, clothing, adult classes, and daily mass. Convent San Charbel has four communites within their orgainization. They have recieved four portable buildings, which are used as school buildings. These communites are located on the outskirts of Tijuana, and most of the families they provide assistance to are displaced migrants from central Mexico who are in need to physical and spiritual assistance. For more information about this partner, please visit: http://missionarysisters.com/

For information on how you can help this project please contact SHI at (619) 582-8200 or email info@servinghands.org.

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Friends Helping Friends

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Parroquia San Eugenio de Mazenod
(San Eugenio Mission of Mazenod)

Mission: To assist the poor with spiritual, medical, educational and psychological needs, to promote better living conditions for the families in the community.

Number Served: 52 thousand locals annually from 14 surrounding Colonias.

Parish Director: Father Nicholas (Nick) Harding

Location: Colonia La Morita II, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

SHI Partnership Began: 1990

Project Overview: In 1996 Fr. Robert Callahan of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded the Parroquia San Eugenio de Mazenod on the outskirts of Tiuana in an area known as La Morita. The mission was named after the founder Missionary of Oblates who desired above all else to preach the Good News to the poor and most abandoned. St. Eugene’s inspiration of reaching out to those most in need continues to be the motivating force for the Oblate priests and brothers who serve a rapidly growing population in a part of Tijuana marked by extreme poverty. Fifteen chapels associated with the Parroquia de San Eugenio supports roughly 200,000 men, women and children who live in or near La Morita II part of the city.
Parroquia San Eugenio has grown by leaps and bounds since its humble beginings in 1996, and thanks to partnerships with non-profit organizations such as SHI, Rotary International, and other local civic groups, the church is now able to support the community with social, medical and educational services through its non-profit Friends Helping Friends International and Casa San Eugenio, their local clinic and community center.
Friends Helping FriendsInternational (FHF)

The mission of Friends Helping Friends International (FHF) is to assist the Misionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate by supporting Parroquia San Eugenio with facilities, programs, and services that positively impact the health and address the need  of the community to become more self-sufficient. The non-profit provides programs such as roof repairs, shoes for children, bi-weekly food distribution, Christmas Tradition, and a Micro Credit program.
FHF believes that in order to achieve their mission, the members of the community they serve must be active participants and equal partners in all of the programs. To this effort, in 2009 the Parroquia, with support from Los Niños, a non-governmental organization based in San Diego, California, started a Mirco Credit program for women from the Colonias. The aim of the program was to provide local women with practical learning about food preparation, nutrition, and an avenue for women to become self-suficient and contribute to the local economy. The program has been asuccess and continues growing.

To learn more about this program, please visit them at www.friendshelpingfriendsit.org

For information on how you can help this project please contact the office at: (664) 901-8455 or email  frnjharding@hotmail.com

 

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