Mission Trips

The Amor mission trip is a short-term mission trip based on touching the lives of families in Mexico at the point of their greatest need. On an Amor mission trip, you will have the chance to understand the conditions of poverty through immersion. You will take bucket showers. You will get dirty. You will build a home for a family. You will experience community. You will discover the profound simplicity of how to "love your neighbor".

How Families Receive a Home

Families are selected to receive homes by the Mexico Ministry Planning Board (MMPB). The selection process begins with the pastors discerning the need within their own communities. Any family within a community can potentially be selected to receive a home, but the family must own their land. Amor and the MMPB have agreed that a family doesn't have to attend the church within that community to receive a home, because we believe that the house becomes a powerful evangelistic tool and opens a relationship between the community’s church and the family. The pastors present their nominations for home recipients at MMPB meetings, and those families selected receive an Amor home built by mission trip participants.

The Mexico Ministry Planning Board

Without this group of Mexican pastors, Amor would truly cease to function as well as it does. The Mexico Ministry Planning Board (MMPB) are not employees of Amor, but an integral part of the Amor team, because they provide vital support in Baja California, Juarez, and Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. The board is made up of Mexican pastors who volunteer to serve alongside the Amor staff because they share a vision of ministry to the people of Mexico.

These tireless, self-sacrificing pastors interview prospective families, create biographical sketches on each family, determine the families in the greatest need for house building priority, and return to the family again and again after the house is complete to meet the spiritual needs of the family. The MMPB sets the tone for service by their consistent involvement with outreach programs, medical clinics, and Amor Ministries staff events.

The Amor House Project

Amor Ministries typically builds an 11’x22’, two-room home with a concrete floor, stucco-finished exterior, weather sealed roof, two windows, and a door. An Amor house is a simple design, built according to the standards of the community so a group without skilled labor or power tools can still complete the project.

Amor doesn't allow the use of power tools or generators on the worksite. We want everyone to be involved in the house building process and power tools do not foster that environment. We realize that there are other methods of completing the building project more quickly, but we want everyone to experience the culture, get to know the family, and allow for a positive cultural experience while in Mexico.