Peace,

   Please join us in the challenge of responding in faith to the root causes of immigration and drug violence as we celebrate 30 years of binational ministry and live in to a new, exciting and to be honest a daunting ministry of drug prevention and intervention ministry.

           Trinity Presbyterian Church (Tucson) has offered a $5,000 challenge grant to fulfill one part of this new ministry: replacing our beloved Fitz, which was donated to FDC by the Blessed Nuno Society.  "Fitz" is retired, and almost dead. Fitz, the Frontera de Cristo van, has made it clear that most of the time he is very stubborn and will only start if one's patience outlasts his stubbornness. His seats are in great disrepair, the windows fall out and the doors only open from the outside (only two of the three). The AC seldom works, and if it does, he will not go in reverse.

If you have a picture of Fitz in action, please send them to us. 

Donate now on our secure online donation site to help us meet the challenge! 

 Read more about how retiring Fitz will help your ministry here on the border! 

Café Justo, Frontera de Cristo, the Migrant Resource Center and Shalom House each sponsored beds with Douglas Youth Taking Phlight for the Douglas Days Bed Races.

Capitan Daniel Cifuentes and his Café Justo team overtook the Team Shalom House to take home the trophy.  

Throughout the rest of the day, the youth proudly sported their Café Justo shirts-and spread the word about Café Justo!

If you have bed races or other events in your community, contact Café Justo about working with you to sponsor a team and share your broader community how you are partnering with them to address root causes of migration over a delicious cup of coffee.

Click her to see more photos of the Bed Races!

has arrived  

FDC's   Just Trade Center just received its first shipment of Café Justo: Cafeina Con Conciencia, the Spanish translation of Just Coffee: Caffeine with a Conscience.

If you would like to receive a copy of the book, click here and give $20 through our secure donation site and put "Book in Spanish" in the memo or email us.

 We are very grateful to Dr. Miguel Ugarte, professor of Spanish and his team from the Univeristy of Missouri: Rosa Morales, Danilo Leon, Lorena Medrano, Hilda Fennelle, Toshiya Kamei, Tomas Blazquez, Blanca Kelty, and Charles Presberg who translated the chapters.

We are also grateful for Dr. Lee Ann Grace of Buffalo State University and Howard Henry-- members of University PC Buffalo and  longtime partners of FDC, who worked hard to edit, copy edit and format the book.

As part of our Prevention Ministry with adolescents and youth, we attended to the City's prevention group meeting, where we shared our concerns, but also our success.

One of the programs is REAL, a program to learn how to make decisions. Jose,one of the students of the school at high risk shared this with us:

"I'm really happy that you came into our life, the area where I live you always find someone who uses drugs and offers to others too. I spend long periods of time inside my house; I don't want to be exposed to this environment because I don't know how to say no.

With the prevention programs I have learned how to live in this reality, and to how I can use different ways to face it, I make this REAL to me.

REAL means: 

Refuse, if I don't want to do it, I have to say NO. I have the freedom to decide what is good for my life.

Explain, I can say the reason why I don't want to do something, sometimes is hard, but no one can force me to change of my mind.

Apartarse (Draw away) I can avoid the situations that I don't want to live, I can use different forms of do it, like get an excuse.

Librarse (To get rid of) I know that is hard to always avoid things, but also I can have the right answer  that keep me busy to get rid of these situations.

I have gained self-control, I have more esteem, I can avoid problems, but more than anything else, I know what I want to do in my life, and drugs is not one of them."

Please keep praying for us, so God can give us wisdom to speak to the kids, to show them that they can make a difference in their communities, homes and lives.

  We continue to receive delegations from churches, universities, schools and organizations from the US, Canada and Mexico.  Saulo Padilla of Mennonite Central Committee USA  reflects about why he led

a delegation to share life and ministry with us in Agua Prieta and Douglas.