Mexico Serve Trip 

Spring 2023

 

NWH is heading down to Rancho Genesis during Spring Break to love orphans, help with building projects, and serve wherever needed this Spring Break, 2023! Our youth team and NWH families/individuals are now joining forces to make an impact in the lives of little niños and niñas.

 

A little bit about Rancho Genesis & Genesis Diez Ministries in Baja California

Rancho Genesis has been in operation for over 25 years and Pastor Ron, our Associate Pastor, has had a longtime connection and relationship with this ministry. Genesis Diez Ministries focus on providing fun and safe refuge for rescued orphans through camp at Rancho Genesis and devoting love and healing to abandoned special needs children through their Beautiful Gate Orphanage.

"Genesis takes you beyond a simple vacation or church camp experience and opens your heart to follow Jesus in loving, caring and helping Heal and bring Hope to an “orphan” Genesis provides you with More than memories, You change lives." 

Rancho Genesis doesn't just put on camps for orphans, they go beyond that and get their volunteers deeply involved in the lives of each "camper". During this serve trip, each "family" will be assigned a number of orphans to "join their family" during camp time. This is an incredible opportunity to love these individual orphans, many of whom come from really heartbreaking circumstances.

If you are interested in joining the team but missed our February 5 registration cut off, please reach out to our front office (541-758-7688, info@nwhills.com). 

 

Trip Details 

Trip Dates: Saturday, March 25 - Sunday, April 2

Location: Ranch Genesis - Baja California, Mexico

Cost: $400 per person

Due to the increased cost of flights we are now DRIVING to Mexico which has decreased the total cost of the trip. 

Requirements: 

• Must have a passport
• Must be in 9th grade+ if joining the team individually
• Must be at least 10 years of age if joining with family
• Must participate in our four-part training series that will take place before the trip including training and preparation support.
  • Sunday, January 8
  • Sunday, January 29
  • Sunday, February 19
  • Sunday, March 12

 

The Flow of the Trip: 

We will now be driving down to Rancho Genesis, leaving Saturday, March 25.

The site has multiple camps. Primarily Rancho Genesis serves as a camp location for orphans. Their secondary focus is Beautiful Gate Orphanage serving special needs children. 

 

Each day will be filled with morning, afternoon, and evening activities. Here is a breakdown of what a typical serve day will look like:

Mornings: Mornings will consist of building projects! What projects we work on may depend on what skills we have within our Mexico serve team and what projects would benefit Rancho Genesis.

Afternoons: It's camp time! Our campers will be bused in for an afternoon of fun and relationship-building! We will host a VBS of sorts and have an opportunity to engage and love on these orphans!

Evenings: Each night, our team will have some time of worship, reflection, a devotional, and an opportunity to hang out and decompress before another day of serving! We also will take this time to write cards for our kiddos to give them the next day.

 

We will arrive back in Corvallis on Sunday, April 2.