Hearts Without Borders

orphanage update 2024

After 19 years of faithfully operating a weekly, then daily, Feeding Shelter, we are now in a new realm of serving. Due to a variety of reasons (drug war violence and death, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse, prostitution, child abuse and neglect), we have now become an ORPHANAGE. The licensing process was begun in 2019. Covid halted the process due to government offices closing and staffing becoming very difficult, even into 2021. We are still "in process" becoming "official", and in the meantime our daily outreach (food, schooling, homework, meeting many basic needs, Bible studies, youth and childrens activities and more) continue.

Isaiah 58:7 Share your food with the hungry

weekly mission event

Our ministry center is staffed by a handful of longtime serving, faithful adults who continue to tirelessly work to serve those who come. Weekly gatherings provide a meal, a Food Gift Basket for local families, the Truth and Hope of the Gospel and a lot of love.

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Our most recent project was to build a dormitory at our Mission Center in Juarez. For 15 years, this location has operated as our main Feeding Shelter, serving over 1500 meals monthly. Due to the violent drug war in Mexico over the past 10 years, there are thousands of children (in Juarez alone! but throughout Mexico) who are now orphaned. We are caring for 35 children who are victims of neglect, abuse, dire poverty, alcohol and drug addicted parents, and noone to care for them. God has brought three dozen of these beautiful children into our care.

ANNUAL FUNDRAISER IN july-august FOR sending children to school

Each summer we raise support to send children to school. Many, or most of these children would not go to school because their families cannot afford the registration fee (as low as $30 per student per year), the school uniforms ($35-$50 per student), backpacks, school supplies, sturdy shoes. Many of these children live in unsafe areas and their families (normally just a grandmother or family friend, as no parents are around for various reasons). It is not safe to walk the area, let alone walk to and from a school. The desert area is rough.

BUT, through this outreach, the children in our care are driven to and from school daily by our staff. They are given uniforms (which we wash 2 times each week), sturdy school shoes (sneakers), new underwear and socks, new backpacks and basic school supplies.