Inspiration

Last night I had the privilege of going the 6th anniversary celebration of Baja Family Outreach in Tijuana.  This local church is located in a retired dump.  That's right a retired dump.  The surrounding families live in very small houses to little shacks made of whatever is available for shelter. Most do not have running water and some don't have electricity.  But then there is the church.

Baja Family Outreach has many ministries reaching out to their community, but the one that most people are familiar with is what they refer to as "The Breakfast Club".  This ministry started out as a food program to feed children breakfast before they attend school.  For some children this was the only meal they might receive that day.  In the last year, it has grown from feeding about 80 children to sometimes 350 meals not only to children, but to entire families.  

When I was at the anniversary celebration last night,  I saw with my own eyes the transformation that was taking place in children, families and the neighborhood.  I heard testimonies of the neighborhood changing, husbands and wives coming to know the LORD Jesus and I saw the countenances of the children that had gone from looks of despair and hopelessness to smiles and joyful laughter!

My favorite part of the entire evening was watching the children worship the LORD during the singing.  They were dancing, jumping and shouting "He is the King of my life!" or "I'm giving You all the glory!"  It was so evident how the Jesus loves children.  They were uninhibited.  They knew first hand the change that had happened to their families when Jesus came to live in their little shack, in a retired Tijuana dump where there was no running water or electricity.

Baja Family Outreach continues to be an inspiration to me.  Although each ministry is unique to the way they may reach people for Christ, I hope one day soon that the work that God is calling me to in Ensenada will flourish in the same way of the Breakfast Club ministry.  I'm not talking about the numbers.  I'm talking about the sense of community in the ministry.  "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!" Psalm 133:1