Building with Fruit
Serving in Baja has always been a privilege and honor for Malibu Pres. But after having our church burn down in October last year, the building up in the lives of the impoverished peoples of Baja has taken on even more purpose and meaning for those a part of our community.
Just three weeks after our building was destroyed, God resurrected a new home for a beautiful family through the hands and hearts of our members. While our building was no more, a new building - this home - was now standing, a testimony to the redemptive power of our gracious God.
In that process we found hope and continue to find hope. And we think of only the Mexican family benefiting from such Kingdom-work!
Recently, Malibu Pres traveled once again to the dust-filled canyons outside Tecate to build three more homes, this time carrying three nails from our burned church. As each home was framed, a nail from our church found it's way into the frame of this home, perhaps temporarily binding pieces of lumber together, but eternally binding one part of the Kingdom to another.
We take no pride in this glory or the adversity we have faced, but our hope and life breathe through the ashes of fire, and the hopelessness of poverty to form a new kingdom, built not with nails but by the blood of the carpenter.
We are always building. Not programs, budgets or saints. But the Kingdom of Heaven. What a mighty, humbling and grace-filled work Baja Christian is doing in these dusty canyons. We are humbled and honored to take part.
For more information about Missions at MPC, please email us at:
missions@malibupres.org
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