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!

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!

China was a Global Tribe and newsboys focus in 2006. China is a country with about 100 million students. Newsboys traveled to China for a series of free and low-cost events, foreshadowing REACH events in the U.S. They were not prepared for what developed as a result of those nights. The audience consisted primarily of university students who came either out of curiosity or a hunger for western rock . It was apparent to all that the student’s hearts were touched by the message and the music and the genuine love and commitment shown by the band. Many people serving God in those Chinese cities as teachers, planters, and mission workers communicated the overwhelming response to the message and the increased opportunity to share the Gospel with their student friends. Many students came to Christ. Today, the impact Global Tribe and newsboys had on these students for just one night in their lives is still felt in these communities where the Christian population is growing steadily.(Pictured left to right: Arena in China for Newsboys concert // Jeff with kids in an orphanage // The boys on the Great Wall!)