Our wonderful partner in Tijuana, Pastor Juvenal Gonzalez and his wife Maria are hosting a group of young Russian Christians in their home, while they work through their immigration process.

El equipo de Fellowship Southwest acaba de concluir un recorrido con la mayoría de los ministerios que apoyamos y que atienden a los migrantes en la frontera. Comenzamos durante el fin de semana de “Labor day” (Día del Trabajo), principalmente como una forma de conectarnos en persona, con estos ministerios que apoyamos, y para que Anyra Cano, la nueva integrante del equipo, conociera los ministerios. Anyra es la directora de programas y alcance, será la persona principal que ayudará coordinar los viajes misioneros y experiencias en la frontera.

The Fellowship Southwest staff just completed a tour of most of the partners we support who serve migrants at the border. We started over Labor Day weekend, mainly as a way to touch base with partners in person, but also to introduce our new staff person, Anyra Cano, to the ministries there. Anyra is the director of programs and outreach, and she will be the primary person who helps to coordinate mission trips and experiences at the border.

A “death sentence” got Juvenal González’s attention, and a reprieve changed his life forever.

As a teenager, González migrated from his home in Guerrero, Mexico, to Washington state, where he picked apples, pears and peaches, and then on to North Carolina, where he picked sweet potatoes. His migration was complicated, but his purpose was simple—buy a pickup truck and prosper.

One morning, he bolted from his bed, vomiting blood. The next morning, he awoke in a hospital bed, facing death.

Sometimes, caregivers need care, and Fellowship Southwest has expanded its Immigrant Relief Ministry to support them.

Two stalwarts in FSW’s ministry to asylum seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border—Juvenal González in Tijuana and Rosalio Sosa in Juarez—recently reported an alarming result of the COVID-19 pandemic: Pastors in their local networks don’t have enough money to feed their families.

Care packages brightened the day for 90 refugees living at Albergue Juventud 2000, a youth shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, early this week. Pastor Juvenal González handed out the little boxes containing high-demand hygiene products that are hard to get in Mexican immigrant shelters.

If the photograph of Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria—her tiny body tucked under his T-shirt, arm around his neck, both drowned face-down in the Rio Grande—broke your heart, welcome to the Legion of the Brokenhearted. 

TIJUANA, Mexico—The flood of immigrants amassed at the Mexico-U.S. border presents both a humanitarian crisis and an opportunity for sharing the gospel, a team of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders who traveled to the region learned.