BEAMM News:
Special "Partnership" Projects
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BEAMM has initiated three special Partnership projects for
2008. These projects are designed to meet specific one-time
needs in each of the three regions of the border. Each
of these three projects are intended to strengthen and assist
local works already in progress to further reach out to their
surrounding communities and all along the border.
Church Planter
Julio Navarro
Julio and Arlette Navarro
are lay leaders of the Misión Dios Soberano
(Sovereign God Mission) works in both Mexicali,
Mexico, and El Centro, CA. BEAMM desires to support
them financially so that they may be able to work
half-time planting this work over the next three
years. After that time, we expect the church that
they are planning to take over their support.
A $50,000, 1:1
Matching Grant has been made available through MTW
Ambassador’s Fund toward this project. Partnership
donations received from other donors will be matched
dollar-for-dollar up to $50,000. This will yield a
total of $100,000 for the project.
Please send
your gift of $50, $100, $500, or more to:
Mission to the World
Box 116284
Atlanta, GA 30368-6284
Account # 91116
Download
Brochure here!
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Extreme
Blessing:
El Paso Edition
Our
goal: $30,000 for a new home for the Peña Family
Over the past
two years, Hector Peña, who earns just $300 per
week, has been trying to build a new home for his family,
buying a few 2 x 4’s each week. Won’t you
help us bless his family by completing their home this
summer?

On September 2006
the trailer in which the Hector Peña family
was residing caught fire. They had no homeowners insurance.
They received some help from the Red Cross and a local
church. Assistance from various local governmental
agencies was extremely limited or nil, in part to
the family’s inability to speak English and
navigate the bureaucracy. The property on which the
trailer was set, a car salvage yard, belongs to Mr.
Peña’s employer. After the fire, the
family moved into the salvage yard’s office,
a one-room space with a bathroom (no shower or tub)
and no running water. They have been living in this
space for the past 18 months. The salvage yard has
now been sold, requiring the Peña family to
vacate the “office” by April, 2008.
Over the past two years, the
Peña family has been in the process of building
a new home on a lot they purchased in the same community.
Monies for the down payment came from donations given
to them. However, as seen in the photograph above,
much more construction is needed.
Hector Peña works as
a car mechanic and earns about $300 per week. While
trying to supply the needs of a family of five on
this meager salary, Hector is also using as much money
as possible to buy materials for their new home. But
now that the family has to leave the salvage yard
office, they must seek another place to live and,
most likely, won’t be able to purchase much
material, delaying the project even longer!
Las Tierras Community Church
has been praying for the last several months about
commencing mercy outreach and community development
ministry in the “colonia” of Montana Vista
just outside the Eastern limits of the city of El
Paso. In God’s providence Pastor Manuel Padilla
met this family through a former community development
worker. After prayer and several meetings with the
family, the Las Tierras Church has decided to serve
this family in the construction of their home. There
are several other needs, material and social, which
we will also try to address.
Overall, this service fits
within our vision of extending the Kingdom of God
through community involvement. As we have received
mercy, we also give mercy. It is our desire to pray
and work toward the planting of a Spanish speaking
church in Montana Vista.
Las Tierras Community Church,
along with BEAMM work teams, will seek to serve and
collaborate with the Peña family in the construction
of their home. We will not do it for them, but join
them in this effort. We will mobilize other neighbors
in the community, other local churches, etc. to participate
and cooperate with the construction of the Peña
home.
Your
immediate gift of $50, $100, $1,000, or more will
enable us to complete this house with them by the
end of Summer, 2008.
Please send your tax-deductible
gifts to:
Las
Tierras Community Church
3664 Tierra Calida
El Paso, TX 79938
Download
Brochure here!
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$110,000
For Iglesia La Vid in Laredo

Please
Help Us Finish A Meeting Place For La Vid!
Utilizing the
help of work teams, BEAMM has been assisting Iglesia
La Vid (The Vine Church) in Laredo, TX, with construction
of a new meeting facility. Your financial gift can
help complete this building in 2008!
In April of 2005,
Carlos Cano took over as Pastor of Iglesia La Vid
(The Vine Church). The church had been planted thirteen
years earlier as part of a charismatic denomination,
but had adopted the Reformed Doctrines of Grace in
2004 and became a fledgling Mission Church of the
South Texas Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church
in America (PCA). La Vid expects to become a particular
church of the PCA in August, 2008.
Because the church
had outgrown its current space, and to better attract
new people from the community, the church began building
a new meeting facility in the Fall of 2005. They invested
all of their savings at that time in the construction
of the steel and cement block shell of the building.
Now the building sits as the congregation tries to
slowly raise the additional $110,000 necessary to
complete the building. While BEAMM has brought in
small work teams over the past two years to help with
the construction, these teams have not been able to
raise the cash necessary to complete essential components
of the building, such as electrical, plumbing, carpet,
and parking lot paving.
BEAMM sees La
Vid as vital to reaching the Eastern end of the border
with the Gospel. This building is essential to their
growth and effectiveness as a congregation.
Your
immediate gift of $50, $100, $1,000, or $10,000 will
allow this building to be completed in 2008 and La
Vid to become an even greater light to the people
of Laredo!
Please
Send Your Contribution To:
Building Fund
Iglesia La Vid
4801 Gallagher Ave
Laredo, TX 78041
A Tax-Deductible receipt will be issued for your donation
Download
Brochure here!
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Team Nogales Finalizes Plans
The members of Team Nogales, the three families who are planning
to move from Ciudad Juárez to Nogales, Sonora, are
feverishly finalyzing their plans for a new church plant in
this city. Miguel Gonzalez, who was elected by the team
to be the primary church planter and pastor of the new work,
is putting the finishing touches on the philosophy of ministry,
values, and vision of the work. Miguel and his family
will visit Nogales in mid-June to seek a house to rent and
to enroll their children in school. They will officially
move to Nogales by the end of July, 2008. Josue and
Martha Mayo plan to join them in September, 2008, with Obed
and Brenda Uc following them in January, 2009.

Team Nogales: Josue and Martha Mayo, Miguel
and Myrna Gonzalez, and Obed and Brenda Uc
Metal Building Update
Unforseen circumstances have delayed the dismantling of a
14,000 square-foot metal building in Encinitas, CA.
This building is being donated to Dios Soberano (Sovereign
God) Mission in Mexicali, Mexico through BEAMM. BEAMM
Mercy Ministries Coordinator Morgan Roe, along with volunteers
from some Southern California PCA churches, have removed about
$20,000 worth of fixtures, doors, and windows. In May,
2008, the owner of the building will have it dismantled so
that it can be loaded onto trucks and shipped to Mexicali
in June.
Read More Here!

BEAMM Team Gears up for Summer Short-Term
Teams
Over 200 people are expected to descend on Laredo, El Paso/Juárez,
and Tijuana this summer to help with various outreach and
community development projects. Click
here for for more information.
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