Mike Gray and a team from North Coast Calvary Chapel in Carlsbad recently built a church for Pastor Julio and Irene Molina in the El Nino Colonia (about 15 miles southeast of Otay). The group built both a church and a home through Baja Christian Ministries.

"We are very fortunate to live so close to an area in need where our entire families can join together in Christ and carry out His mission,"           Gray said. "Our trips include people of all ages. My wife and I have two young children, and one of the greatest pieces of advise we've been given is that if we want to have our children respond in a particular way, then we need to show them through our example. Telling our kids about Christ and how we should help the poor is one small step to our ministering to them, but when they accompany us to help build a house and paint over graffiti in a poor area, we put them in a place that allows God to work in them. We also put them in a place that exposes to them how the majority of the people in the world live — not in the lap of luxury that we are blessed with."

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