How many small steps does it take to change a culture? We don't really know except to say that we just saw a small step in the right direction. One of our missionary couples, Cindy and Jose Luis Pesina are doing everything they know to help the poorest children in East Tijuana. One of the problems is having the resources needed to attend school. They have raised significant funds to help over 100 children in the past. This year they decided to approach the Costco managers in Tijuana for help. Here is the response (taken from Cindy's prayer letter):
“Can you bring 45 kids from far east Tijuana to Costco Zona Rio” they asked? “Of course” I replied. (Costco would give them all free backpacks.) Then when we arrived at Costco she said “can you get together 125 kids together in the Valle Redondo area?” “Of course” I replied! (180 kids showed up).
But only God can do these things and so we hit our knees and prayed and then employed the help of a lot of volunteers from Mexico, and guess what!!! Costco donated 270 backpacks to the kids of Tijuana through YUGO Ministries and they personally gave out 200 of those backpacks to the kids with us! We then traded some of the backpacks for equal backpacks with a lot more supplies. In all, 350 backpacks were distributed through 10 different churches and about 300 of the backpacks were full of supplies! We were able to fill all these backpacks through many generous donations and the help of seven Mexican youth from a Rosarito church who worked with us in assembly line fashion for two days!Praise the Lord!
