Voice Of the Bride Ministries...

Homeschooler assembly line = nearly 500 bagged socks and 150 personal care packs.

So grateful for the extra help to pull this off!

For our Christmas give away this year, instead of winter hats, we bought over 1500 pairs of socks. Our dear friend Julia Cecil offered her son’s homeschool friends to help prepare the red gift bags for women and green for men. We also made more personal care packs for those living on the streets of Tijuana. So everyone got 3 pairs of new socks at our Tuesday night outreach, the aqueduct outreach, the elderly home, and the infirmaries. We also had a successful toy drive – where every kid got at least one toy. Photo’s to come perhaps next month. Thanks for your help making this all possible!

Outreach gift give away — Everyone living in the aqueducts got fresh clean socks.

New socks for the Elderly home residents as well.

(above) We were donated new mattresses from a cruise ship overstock. VOB delivered over 200 twin mattresses to children’s homes, rehabs, and families who either had no mattress or in dire need of a better one

(below) My buddy Vicente built a bunk bed (for the mattresses) for the boys of one of our adopted families. They have their own bed to themselves now. We bought them new sheets for Christmas to go on their new bed! Wish you could have seen the smiles!

Croc shoe donations — Donation of Croc shoes for the kids. 400 pair! Thanks to an LDM contact with Carol D.

TJ is the nickname for San Diego’s neighbor city of Tijuana. It is also the first letters of the words Truth and Justice.
I Love TJ is a group for those who want to see Truth and Justice in Tijuana. The Truth is that it’s not right that our neighbors are suffering from poverty. It’s not right that people live in fear from cartels and corrupt government. It’s not right that people are dying for lack of medical care.

Justice would mean more than enough food to meet their needs, a warm home and freedom from oppressive politics and environment. Basic needs, yes. But for many a difference between life and death.

When Jesus was asked to define neighbor, he told the story of a man robbed by bandits and left for dead, and the string of people who avoided Truth and Justice. On this group, you can follow the ministry of Wayne and Carol Kiger-Rice, as they feed the poor and the orphans, or more simply as they love TJ. In this way, you are showing your love for the poor and the broken in TJ. Wayne and Carol are living their lives finding and helping neighbors who need help.

I love TJ. Or as the locals would say, “Me Gusta TJ.”