Mexico Mission

Each spring St. Andrew’s youth and adults spend a week in Tijuana, Mexico with the Amor Ministries, assisting those in need by building homes for low income families that do not have a place to protect them from the elements.

The Amor Mission Trip

The Amor mission trip is a short-term mission trip based on serving the local church in Mexico, while creating cross-cultural understanding through direct exposure to the Mexican culture. Amor Ministries doesn't want a group to just build a house in a developing nation. We want a group to understand the conditions of poverty through immersion.

How Families Receive A Home

Families are selected to receive homes by the Mexico Ministry Planning Board (MMPB). The selection process begins with the pastors discerning the need within their own communities. Any family within a community can potentially be selected to receive a home, but the family must own their land. Amor and the MMPB have agreed that a family doesn't have to be saved or even attend the church within that community to receive a home, because they believe that the house becomes a powerful evangelistic tool and opens a relationship between the community’s church and the family. The pastors present their nominations at board meetings and those families selected will then receive an Amor home built by mission trip participants.

The Amor House Project

Amor Ministries typically builds an 11’x22’, two-room home with a slab floor, stucco-finished exterior, two windows, and a door. An AMOR house is a simple design, built according to the standards of the community so that a group without skilled labor or power tools can still complete the project. Amor doesn't allow the use of power tools or generators on the worksite. We want every member of the mission trip group involved in the house building process and power tools do not foster that environment. We realize that there are other methods of completing the building project more quickly, but we want everyone to experience the culture, get to know the family you are building for, and play with the children. Our building projects may include a double house (for larger families), schools, churches, and medical clinics, but these are dependent upon the needs of the community and the total number of mission trip participants in a group.