Dear friends,

Last week I returned from Baja, Mexico. I thought I had seen poverty. When Anthony and I joined with the Baja Christian Ministries team in El Nino, I was truly overwhelmed by the mass of impoverished people and the conditions in which they live. Hundreds upon hundreds of shelters families have built from scraps of materials from trash heaps dot the landscape. Walls like a patchwork quilt. Dusty dirt roads.
For every 20 people who give just a dollar a day, we can build one home. With 200 people, we can build 10 homes, and 2,000 would help us build a village. Your help makes this possible. If you are already helping us build homes through your gifts, thank you. For those considering joining with us, your $1 a day makes a difference in waging war on poverty, both physical and spiritual.
There are now 40 million people living in extreme poverty in Mexico alone. Having seen with my own eyes the need, I humbly ask that you join with us to build a village.

Sincerely,
Robert Michaels
Executive Director

The Global Tribe Children’s Center in Bawana is operated by Julie-Ann “Jig” Clayton. Her passion is reaching the kids in the slums of India, providing a caring center for education, renewal, and hope. From children’s activities to the arts, general education, solid meals, and the opportunity to build relationships with families, the global Tribe Children’s Center is a place for mentoring and love, wrapped in the Gospel. Many Indian children suffer from poverty; more than 50% of India’s total population lives below the poverty line, and more than 40% of this population are children. There are 160 million family units.

Pictured above: Jig caught in the act of teaching and loving her kids!

Overland Missions is led by Phil Smithurst, who we affectionately call “The Indiana Jones of Missions.” Phil earned this title. He was in Special Forces in the South African Army during the Angola War, was a champion Land Rover racer, and is an all around adventurer, so who else would God call to this mission? The folks at Overland take the Great Commission - to the uttermost regions - quite seriously, and Phil teaches his recruits a fearless passion for taking the Gospel where others simply do not go. Each team is trained in survival, first aid, truck repair, and all the skills most missionaries would rarely need. Anthony Walton - Global Tribe Founder - gets regular emails from his daughter Rebecca who is serving in Zambia with Overland. Whether from their base at Victoria Falls in Zambia or in the Amazon, they are going, blazing trails and proclaiming Christ! The vast majority of Zambia’s 11 million people still live in abject poverty.

Pictured above: By heavy truck they go in teams, and the truck becomes a stage! Far right: children gather for a treat - bubbles.

Using the platform of a FREE Newsboys concert, we partner with a key local radio station, local churches and businesses, and a local food pantry to conduct an evangelistic event called REACH. Preceding each event, we visit with radio who hosts a meeting of pastors and another for businessmen. There we cast the vision, and encourage the churches to provide volunteers for the prayer team, and leadership for the assimilation team to make sure responders are connected to a church. We encourage Christians to bring neighbors, coworkers, friends, classmates, or anyone needing to hear the Gospel in an entertaining environment. Since fall 2008, we have done 3 events: Tucson AZ, Johnson City TN, and Saginaw MI. Collectively we saw 24,000 attend, 800 make decisions for Christ, 9 tons of food collected, 75 churches come together to impact the community, and 3 radio stations who were passionate about the Gospel!