Look what God has done with Intercessors and Volunteers:

“As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another; as good stewards of the manifest grace of God” 1 Peter 4:10.  We are often asked “How is so much done with so little?” Our answer “prayer and volunteers!”  Volunteers come from all walks of life and as far away as Australia, Canada and South Africa.  More than 3,300 visitors came to see what God is doing.  They help to care for and teach our children, work in construction, maintenance, cleaning, sewing, the kitchen, warehouse and medical center.  Hundreds of quilts and afghans are lovingly made to bless others.  Volunteers prune, graft and weed our orchards; they harvest and process our macadamia nuts and make delicious confections that are sold in our gift shop netting more than $21,000.

Judy Gama of Redding, California, founded our first women’s auxiliary group: WINGS (Women in God’s Service). These women have adopted our house mothers and gift them with personal needs.  In the past five years they have raised thousands of dollars to refurbish our children’s homes and the students’ home in Tijuana.

For 13 years our beloved Nancy Benning, has given her time and talents to teach our children music and violin. Hans Benning and Navajo Indians from Arizona have helped to build our newest church at Rancho de Cristo near the Mission in Baja.

Each month, 50 senior volunteers tape, label and sort 12,000 newsletters for mailing to the USA, Canada and beyond. A professional mailing service would charge $12,000 per month.

v  We are so grateful for all our volunteers.

Please call our USA office at 949-492-2200 if you would like to schedule a visit or a work group to one of our Missions.

Look what God has done for the Poor:

The Apostle Paul tells us “from the time he set foot in Asia, he did not shrink from going from house to house…” Acts 19:20.  Preaching the Gospel often begins with meeting humanitarian needs: simple acts of compassion, such as visiting the poor.  We’re told, “How will they hear unless someone is sent…” Rom 10:15.  This past year we visited more than 8,000 homes and supplied the basic needs of nearly 13,000 families, including food, clothes, shoes, blankets, tarps for roofing and “Bread of Life” food parcels. 

Our soup kitchen doesn’t just dish out ladles of broth and a piece of bread. We served 12,509 sit down meals, sending many guests on their way with food to take home. 

A day care with bath tubs and laundry?  Whoever heard of such a thing? Our day care staff drive out and pick up 30 children a day.  Children are bathed, fed, clothes are washed and they’re given Christian preschool education.

Benito Juarez, a Zapotec Indian from Oaxaca, the first President of Mexico learned to read and write from his wife.  This year we taught 394 people to read and write in our Literacy Project.  In Baja, we’re on the cutting edge with our Second Step Project combining elementary education with literacy; in Chiapas, literacy is the key that has opened the door to this new frontier.

Each year Mexico celebrates “National Day of the Niño.”  We hosted a “Jesus Party” where 1,200 of the poorest of the poor came for a hot dog picnic, giant “bounce castle” and games.

In our weekly open-air child evangelism and discipleship classes, 29,177 children participated,  

Hungry children were served 3,840 gallons of milk, 1,723 pounds of peanut butter and 16,000 pounds of dried fruit donated by Gleanings for the Hungry.

Psalm 72:13

“He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and the lives of the needy He will save.”

Look what God has done for the Lost:

Each winter, thousands of migrant workers gather in Culiacan, Sinaloa to harvest crops. About 110 ethnic groups are represented. Many have never heard the Gospel.  Like the day of Pentecost, it’s an opportunity to add to the Church in great numbers.  Our outreach team ministered in about 75 camps to 175,000 people, and about 1,200 committed their lives to Christ.

 Our multi-cultural churches in Baja are filled nearly every service.  A gathering of 10,000 Christians recently met in the baseball park at Vicente Guerrero to worship and pray together.  

In Oaxaca, indigenous women designed quilt squares depicting Bible stories taught by Elaine Croft.

Our Baja TV station continues to faithfully transmit Christian and educational programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In Baja, Mission staff visit the local jail weekly bringing food and ministering to prisoners. In Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, we have a chapel in the prison and minister in two other prisons.

Those in bondage to alcohol and drugs are set free and discipled at our rehab center in Zapata and Rancho de Cristo. Our safe haven providing shelter for abused women is still under construction and needs funding. Glenn and Rosa Almeraz oversee these homes.  You can read their testimonies in “God Among Us” – order through FFHM. The Chapel at Rancho de Cristo was recently completed and will be dedicated in January 2008.

Thousands of tracts, New Testaments and Bibles were distributed throughout the year.

Our Bible Institute in Baja is bursting at the seams, with 32 students; another 15 are wait-listed this year.  These young people come from the length and breadth of Mexico.  After graduation, many return to their homes to pastor churches or work in full time evangelism.  Our expansion program is under way.  Won’t you consider sponsoring a Bible student or contributing to the building project?  Call, write or visit our website for information.

Look what God has done through our Medical Ministry:

Meeting physical needs opens the door to minister to spiritual needs. Along with visiting doctors, Dr. Ramon Avitia who also serves as the Baja Mission Church pastor, treated 5,430 patients without charge.  Recently graduated from dental school, Laura Reyes returned home to the Mission and treated 1,411 patients.  Dr. Mark Eanes and team returned to meet the optical needs of 775 people.  More than 1,000 prescription reading glasses were given to the needy. 

“Health Education for Developing Countries,” written by Dr. Arnold Gorske, is printed and distributed by FFHM in English, Spanish, Chinese, French and Arabic, resulting in life and soul saving changes.  The Health Education Program can be ordered through our website:  www.ffhm.org

Shriner’s Hospital among others treated and performed surgeries for children with special needs and birth defects. Children in the cancer ward in Morelia, Michoacan are visited bi-weekly. Infants at risk are given round-the-clock nursing care by Phil and Betty Swor.

David Irving, RN, and a team from Valley Vineyard, Reseda, California ministered to the medical, dental and spiritual needs of hundreds in the remote regions of Oaxaca.

Dirk and Mary Kos oversee the Angel Ministry to the disabled.  This ministry has continued to grow and hundreds of wheelchairs, medical equipment and supplies are given to those in need.