Back in February, we had a bit of money left by a visiting team to be used at our discretion. We looked at that money and thought about the needs around Welcome Home. How should the funds be used? One of the pressing needs, we felt, was to add bathroom capacity to our west dormitory. [...]

Well, not exactly… but here’s the story of a house build that wasn’t on our radar this summer, that we didn’t have money for nor a team to make it happen. Yet, it did happen! God is good and His ways are bigger and better than our minds can conceive or imagine.
When intern Heidi Underwood [...]

This summer has been a bit more low key than the past several years. Sadly, we had many scheduled teams cancel their trips to Mexico this year… 23 cancellations to be exact… and this made a huge difference in our schedule.
HOWEVER, in spite of — or perhaps because of — this downturn, we were able [...]

Attention, leaders! Now is the time to reserve your 2010 dates for short-term missions trips at Welcome Home. Missions trips are life-changing opportunities — both for your team members and for those here in Mexico whose lives you will touch.
Don’t miss out on things like…
Handing over the keys to a family’s new home… and receiving [...]

Something very special happened here at Welcome Home in July when a team of dental professionals (see Visiting Groups Summer 2009/Team Peffly) came from Madera, CA, to hold a dental clinic at the WHO facility. It wasn’t just about the many, many people who were served by the team. This special blessing involved a surprise [...]

Once again, God has blessed Welcome Home with some great young adults volunteering their time, skills and hearts to the ministry here. Earlier this year, in a previous blog, we introduced you to Josiah Rydmark (Molalla, OR). Josiah loves serving the Lord in Mexico — which explains his eight(!) months with us and his hope [...]

Once again this Fall, co-directors Steve and Jackie Scott are looking forward to connecting with our Welcome Home extended family while we travel the west coast during November/December/January. If you would like to meet with us, just get in touch via email (steve_jackie_scott@yahoo.com) and we’ll try to make it work.
We also solicit your assistance in [...]

Casa Hogar Bienvenidos staff celebrated a milestone for seventeen of our students as they graduated from Kindergarten this year. Even though the normal public school celebration was not held because of the governmental ban on school gatherings (due to H1N1 virus), our Bienvenidos staff wanted to give our Kinders a grand send-off as they head [...]

Here at the daycare we have a cook named Cande. She reminds me every day of what it means to be loving and kind, to work hard and provide for others. I can tell through her actions that what she does, she does out of a heart that loves. Cande cooks delicious meals and makes [...]

We appreciate the recommendation of an important missions-related book by the Missions Action Team of Mt Scott Church of God (Portland, OR), and we want to pass along this recommendation to our Welcome Home community.  Giving Wisely: Killing With Kindness or Empowering Lasting Transformation? should be on the reading list of every pastor, church board and missions [...]