Giving Tuesday

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Be a Part of #GivingTuesday! Today is the day! It's the day that you can make a big impact on Casas por Cristo and on families in need of quality housing in México, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. With your help, we can raise $16,500 to help three teams that want to come and build a home but need assistance with their fundraising. How can you be part of it? Here are a few simple ideas: Consider making a gift on #GivingTuesday at casasporcristo.org/give. Join us for a group mission trip or a Team Casas trip for individuals. Help us get the word out on social media, using @casasporcristo and the hashtag #GivingTuesday. Take photos to post on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Today's the day, and we need your help to grow our impact on three teams that want to build a home for a family living in poverty.

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Give a Home this Christmas

GIVE A HOME THIS CHRISTMAS REGISTER TODAY We still have space available for groups that want to give the gift of a home this Christmas. What a wonderful way to celebrate the greatest gift of all. The perfect time for your trip is the week between Christmas and the New Year. We have families on the waiting lists in México, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.

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Merry Christmas

Wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas! May you be blessed this season as we celebrate the birth of our savior!!

Team Casas

We need YOU!

In both Guatemala and México, you have the opportunity to give the gift of a lifetime this Christmas. After celebrating with your family, would you consider giving to another? Two families are waiting and praying to receive a home this holiday season.

In Guatemala, Jose Boror (26) and his wife Sonia (23) have no way to provide a safe shelter and home for their young daughter Leidi (2). Our prayer is that this little girl will grow up in a home were she always knows that the body of Christ came to provide for her.

Where: San Raymundo, Guatemala
When: December 30th-January 5th
Cost: $675 per person / not including airfare to Guatemala City
Deadline: November 16, 2012

In Acuña, México, Maria Rodriguez (56) and her son Edgar (10) live in a single parent household and currently have no means of income besides donations from others. With no way to provide a Christmas for her son this year, we can't imagine a better gift for them both; not from us, but through us. What better way to celebrate what this holiday is truly about?!

Where: Acuña, México
When: December 27th-30th
Cost: $500 per person / not including travel to Del Rio, Texas
Deadline: November 16, 2012

For more information check out this link: Team Casas

Top FIVE

Here are the top five reasons that we are proud to be a part of this ministry: Watching families experience the love of Christ in a way that they have never known before.   Bringing churches and individuals together across borders, cultures and language barriers. Seeing people’s lives changed forever because they received a home they could not otherwise afford. Knowing that we are changing lives in two different countries and three different cities. Seeing God provide every day and every step of the way. Hopefully this list inspires you to continue to be a part of our work in the lives of the Mexican and Guatemalan people.  There are only a few days left in 2011 and we need your help.  Before we ring in a new year, celebrate what God is doing at Casas por Cristo by making a donation.  It is because of your giving that we are still here changing lives! End the year right – DONATE NOW!

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Gift of Love

Merry Christmas from all of us at Casas por Cristo!  We hope you had a great holiday, and that you got everything on your wish list!  Most importantly, we hope that you were able to spend Christmas with the ones you love, remembering the birth of our Savior. 

As we reflect on the great things God has done in and through Casas por Cristo in 2011, we want to stop and thank you for your role.  Whether you volunteered, built a home, prayed, or gave financially – thank you!  We would not have been able to build 153 homes this year for families in need without your partnership.

The good news is, the year is not over yet.  You can still pray and you can still donate!  With only a few days left in 2011, your gift is more valuable now than ever.  Would you please consider a donation to Casas por Cristo before 2012 begins?  With a simple click, you can DONATE NOW and in a few seconds your gift will be going to help families living in poverty across the border in México and Guatemala.  And of course, all financial donations are 100% tax deductible.

Thank you for your support of Casas por Cristo in 2011.  We look forward to what God will do in the New Year!

Merry Christmas

Christmas Memories

What do you say about Christmas when you’re just not in the Christmas mood?  It’s hard to get into the Christmas Spirit when Christmas doesn’t look like it is supposed to in your mind.  I live here in the desert southwest, and it doesn’t look like the Christmases from my childhood.  My childhood Christmases were always white, cold and surrounded by family.  My memories are filled with snowball fights, skating on frozen ponds, sledding, making snow forts and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 447^th time. Now the only thing that seems to be the same is that I’m watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 4,447^th time and I have added “Elf” for the 151^st time to that tradition.

Now if you know me at all, at this point you are saying, “Who are you trying to kid!?”  After all, I grew up in south Texas on the border in the land of 80 degrees for Christmas.  I mean it only snowed three times in Eagle Pass when I was growing up and only once did it ever stick to the ground.  We had tamales instead of sugar plums.  We didn’t even have any other family that lived in Texas.  So just what Christmas memories am I talking about?

Well, being missionaries, Christmas was one of the only times we got to travel back and see my parent’s families.  So most Christmases were spent in Durango, Colorado or the Kansas City, Missouri area.  I grew up with my Christmases being surrounded by countless uncles, aunts, grandparents and more cousins than I can even remember names for.  So, spending my Christmas now in El Paso just seems off and honestly doesn’t feel like Christmas…UNTIL TODAY!!!!

WOW!!!  Can you believe it?  This is the view from my back window.  It is snowing like crazy.  And something else crazy is happening, as the snow keeps falling from the sky, memories of Christmas are beginning to flood my mind…and now tears!  Thank you Jesus for these wonderful memories; memories that had for long been forgotten.

My grandparents have all passed away.  All of us cousins are all grown up now with families of our own, and without grandparents to go back and visit, we haven’t seen each other in years.  My brother and sister’s families are all grown up and have their own Christmas traditions.  The busyness of life has spread us out all over the place.

As I stare out my dining room window, I know that my heart should be breaking because all of this snow means that so many of my neighbors across the border living in shacks are now freezing cold and wet, but somehow today I am thankful for the snow.  I am thankful for the memories that have been restored, refreshed and revisited.

This all makes me think of a seldom visited verse in the Bible, Luke 2:51; “But his(Jesus) mother treasured all these things in her heart.”  We all have memories that we treasure.  I challenge you this Christmas season to build some new memories.  Be intentional!  What can you do this Christmas season to build memories that will last a lifetime?  As for my family (me, my wife and daughter), we are going to go build a house for a family in need in Acuna, Mexico…and in the process build a memory.

Thank you Jesus for the snow!  Thank you Jesus for the memories! 

Merry Christmas!

-David

Last Minute Gifts

Do you need a last minute gift for someone?   Why not give one that will make a difference in the lives of others? Casas por Cristo's gifts that give back Do you need a Christmas gift for the person who has everything? Would you consider giving a gift that gives back to a family in need? Donate to Casas por Cristo as a Christmas gift for someone or ask for this as a present this year.  There are four Printable Christmas Cards below to give to those you love.  Select your favorite card then Click, Print, Donate and Give a gift that keeps giving back.         Merry Christmas. And thank you for your thoughts and prayers this holiday season.      Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here To Donate

15 Years Later...

“For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  Jeremiah 29:11

Do you believe that promise?  I want to tell you about a young man who not only believes that, but has lived it.  Just a few months ago I received the following email from Juan Manuel Muñoz. 

I found your website on the internet. I am currently a Law student in Tyler Texas. I want to say to you guys how thankful I am with you and with God for having people like you in the world. I was 5 years old when a group from Casas Por Cristo came to our community and built a house for us. My family still has all the pictures from when they came. I remember I got a bag of skittles from a lady that worked on our house. Right now, looking back to those days when we were needy and poor, I feel that God sent those people to help us. They were so kind and generous. I’m writing this e-mail with tears in my eyes. God is my witness. Thank you so much for what you guys did. God bless you. I will donate money soon so that some other family is happy just as mine was all those years ago. Again, thank you.

What an amazing testimony!  This is what happens when you come on a trip with Casas por Cristo.  This is what happens when you invest in the ministry of Casas por Cristo through your generous support and gifts.

This year has been a challenging one at Casas por Cristo.  The economy has been tough on everyone, including us, but we have refused to be ruled by the economy.  This year we have been obedient to God’s call to go into all the world as we have started operations in Guatemala.  We are excited to share this same life-changing ministry that changed Juan’s life with the people of Guatemala as well.

During this holiday season will you help us continue to bring the hope of this world Jesus Christ to other little kids like Juan?  Rest assured that your gift will help change the future for countless families living in México and Guatemala.

Humbly,

David Robertson

Executive Director

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Gifts That Give Back

Casas por Cristo's gifts that give back Do you need a Christmas gift for the person who has everything? Would you consider giving a gift that gives back to a family in need? Donate to Casas por Cristo as a Christmas gift for someone or ask for this as a present this year.  There are four Printable Christmas Cards below to give to those you love.  Select your favorite card then Click, Print, Donate and Give a gift that keeps giving back.          Merry Christmas and thank you for your thoughts and prayers this holiday season.           Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here To Donate