Joaquin

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

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 

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

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

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.

A young woman with a child discovers her husband has left her. She doesn’t have money, food for her baby or a job. She finds a place to stay with friends who don’t have much and are stretched thin supporting her and her young child. Desperate for help, the young mother goes to an organization she has heard can help her. She goes to Casa de los Pobres, a Serving Hands International partner in Tijuana, Mexico. She is able to receive basic provisions of food for herself and her child. Now, having gained a sense of dignity, she volunteers to package and sort goods for other families in need. Soon, her volunteering will provide her skills that are valuable for a job…and in the meantime she is able to give back to the organization that rescued her and her child. Casa de los Pobres is one of Serving Hands International’s 43 partners’ organizations in Mexico that receives a bi-monthly essential food donation. The essential food is rice, beans, flour, sugar, oil, fresh fruit and vegetables. These groceries are a challenge to acquire for many women and hard pressed families due to strained or depleted finances. Serving Hands International was able to provide these essentials to over 45,000 people in need during 2013. The food donations provided are made possible by our sponsor A-1 Self Storage and donors like you!

A year ago our team could not have imagined the impact of each life ministered to through Serving Hands International and its partner organizations.Yet Serving HandsInternational carried out their mission and in great delight surpassed the impact that was made in 2012. This feat was made possible through the tireless efforts of Serving Hands’ partner organizations, their dynamic programs and their faithful administers and volunteers. In partnership with each of them 225,000 people were recipients of positive programs within the countries of Mexico, India, Ghana, Tanzania, Peru, Philippines, and South Africa. Serving Hands International’s mission is to aid the poorest people in the world while striving to encourage in them self-sufficiency, dignity and hope by providing educational and vocational opportunities, food, clothing, shelter, medical assistance and spiritual guidance. We thank our partners, volunteers, premier sponsor A-1 Self Storage and YOU our generous donors who have encouraged Serving Hands to continue in our mission and in so doing making lasting impacts in the lives of individuals worldwide.

December, 2013-Serving Hands International Annual Christmas Tradition Program continues to generate joyous and lasting memories for our partner organizations and their communities. One such story, retold by Father Francisco Javier of a Tijuana Parish, is evidence of that fact. His story, translated into English, demonstrates the happiness and relief felt by those who are elected to participate in the SHI Christmas Tradition Program. “After the main distribution of Serving Hands International food bags donated to my parish, there were 6 food bags remaining which I planned to deliver. I drove to an underprivileged area close to the water dam. It was now past 6 p.m. and quite dark outside when I saw a very small humble home with a faint light. I sounded the horn and a man with extreme caution peered out of the doorway. He asked ‘May I help you?’ I told him I was Father Francisco. I shared that I had brought a food bag to deliver to the less fortunate families in the neighborhood. As I spoke I delivered such bag into his hand and asked him to share with his family. In that moment, the man dropped to his knees and raised his arms to thesky saying, ‘I thank God for this gift, this was going to be the saddest Christmas of my life – not having anything to feed my family.’ He then stood up and went quickly inside his house screaming, “Family, God sent us dinner!” I could hear his wife and children cheering. “This was truly one of the unsurpassed moments of my life,” shared Father Francisco to Serving Hand’s Field Officer Joaquin Hernandez. “This experience has been a compelling motivation to continue to undertake this beautiful project in order to provide a Christmas dinner to just such less destitute families!” With humble thanksgiving we acknowledge the generosity of Serving Hands International donors and our Sponsor, A-1 Self Storage without whom Serving Hands International Christmas Tradition Program would not be possible. Through your generosity families in Tijuana were fed this year and for the past 31 years when the program began.