| Mark worked with a
team of 30 people from Shreveport/Bossier City Louisiana to
distribute over 2,400 gifts through Samaritan's Purse to
children in one of the most dangerous cities in the world,
Juarez, Mexico. The present danger in Juarez is due to turf
battles among drug cartels; however, Samaritan's Purse
continues to deliver gifts to needy children across the world,
including Juarez.
The team traveled to Juarez in
January 2009 and worked with the local ministry in Juarez,
"Amigo Fiel" (Faithful Friend). Over 2,000 children came to a
local recreation center where the team unloaded and
distributed gifts to every child. Each child receives one
gift. Because of the number of gifts to distribute, there were
three different distribution times over two
days.
On the afternoon of the last
day, the team traveled to one of the slum areas (colonias)
where people build homes from cardboard and pallets until they
can afford cinderblocks. Here the team distributed over 400
gifts to children. |
