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Spread God's Word.
The same Scripture that anchors a Sunday in Clovis anchors a week in Rosarito. We carry it across the border and hand it over.
Annual student mission trip
Mexico Mission Trip.
Every spring our Student Ministry heads south to Rosarito, Baja California, to serve alongside our missionary partners. Bringing hope, building faith, changing lives.
Annual
Spring · one week
Where
Rosarito, Baja California
Who
High school + rising 8th
Where we're going
Rosarito, Baja California.
Twenty-five miles south of San Diego, our team stays at The Connections House, a base run by missionaries Ron and Kristy Struska.
The Connections House.
Ron and Kristy Struska have spent more than a decade bridging mission teams to local Mexican churches. They host our team for the week, hand off the day's plan over breakfast, and help us land where the work actually matters.
The location is far enough that the team feels stretched out of its routine, close enough that families can stay in touch the whole week.
How we serve
VBS, Bible studies, and presence.
For 80 to 100 kids each year.
Students run a week-long Vacation Bible School for 80 to 100 children in the local community. Music, games, crafts, and Bible stories every day.
Alongside the kids program, the team leads Bible studies for teens and women in the area. Same Scripture as a Sunday morning back home, taught in a setting that asks different questions of the text.
The project
Niños Con Fe Casa Hogar.
An orphanage in Rosarito led by Gabriel and America Hernandez. Our team puts hands on whatever is the next thing to finish.
This year: a women's transition home.
Drywall, insulation, paint, a working bathroom. The team brings the labor; the orphanage staff brings the design and the relationships. By the end of the week the structure is one step closer to housing women in transition.
Past years have included similar build-and-finish projects across the property. Construction skill is not required; the team will show you what to do.
Why we go
Three reasons we keep going.
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Support local churches.
We come alongside congregations and missionaries who are already in this work. We do not replace them; we help.
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Grow through service.
Students come home different. The week shifts what they pay attention to and what they assume about their own faith.
How to get involved
Three ways in.
01 · Pray
Stand with the team.
Pray for the students, the leaders, Pastor Cain, and the families our team will serve. We will send a prayer guide a few weeks before the trip.
Send a prayer request02 · Give
Help send the team.
One-time or recurring gifts to the Missions / Youth Missions fund. Every dollar lowers the cost a student carries and grows the build budget.
Give to Youth Missions03 · Support letter
Get a letter from a student.
Sign up to receive a personal support letter from a team member. It is the first step into their journey and ours.
Sign upWhy it sticks
The week changes how a student sees the rest.
It is not the build. It is the conversation at the gate.
Students come back with a clearer sense of what is theirs to do and what is God's to handle. They have made friendships with kids whose names they will remember next year. They have prayed in another language with people they had never met on Monday.
Whatever a student thought ministry was before the trip, the trip widens it.
Trip prep
4620 E. Nees Ave, Clovis, CA 93611
Trip meetings, gear pack-out, and parent briefings happen at the New Hope campus before departure. Contact the Student Ministries team at (559) 297-7362 or office@newhopechurch.net for the next info night. Get directions.