• This week Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church leaves again for Juarez, Mexico, for a week-long mission trip. CCPC has been serving alongside Pastor Jorge Mata and La Iglesia Maranatha for nearly 30 years. This year the short-term mission team will look to work on several service projects on the church compound, lead a morning and afternoon session of Vacation Bible School for 70-100 children and some adults, and continue cultivating relationships with area families, youth, and adults through soccer and other activities. CCPC reached out to CrossTraining last year and made a Timothy Project request. You can read about all they accomplished here. This year, they are requesting any t-shirts, shorts, jerseys, and soccer or basketball equipment that they can take down to enhance their ministry. Pastor Chris Piehl commented

    Oct 20,
  • Jessica Gimbel has been playing soccer since she was three years old. And when she and a team of volunteers from Cherry Hills Community Church head to Juarez, Mexico later this month to help build homes for poor families, she will look to channel a bit of that inner child. The church volunteers, combined with Mission Ministries, will build a couple of homes and spend some time playing with the children in the neighborhood where they will serve. The trip from September 7 - 11 is need of prayer, and some soccer balls. Gimbel shared the team's need in the hopes that they can give soccer balls away to the children while they are there, We are super excited to return after handing out

    Sep 01,
  • Jack Ballou serves as treasurer for CrossTraining's Board of Directors, but in addition to his service for CrossTraining and his work as a Certified Public Accountant, he has a heart for the people of Juarez, Mexico. Ballou, who resides in Arlington, Texas speaks some Spanish and has been preparing for a mission work trip across the border to build a house for a family in Juarez through Casas por Cristo. During Ballou's recent time in Denver for CrossTraining's Board Retreat, it occurred that there might be an opportunity to take some Colorado Rapids gear down to Juarez to give to the poor children and families served by the team working with CPC. As the idea continued to form, Timothy project: Juarez 2016 was born.

    Jun 23,
  • Three weeks ago, twenty-three friends from Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church (CCPC) gathered in the chilly pre-dawn to pray before heading south down the interstate.  Caravanning in four cars and pulling a trailer loaded with tools, soccer gear, and VBS decorations, the team headed to Juarez, Mexico, for a week-long mission trip. CCPC has been serving alongside the same pastor and church in Juarez for the past twenty-eight years.  Pastor Jorge Mata, La Iglesia Maranatha, and CCPC together build a house for a family in need and lead Vacation Bible School for the neighborhood children.  Most years, only a few of the Americans can speak any Spanish - but through their common goals, lots of hand gestures, and plenty of good

    Nov 19,
  • In just a couple of weeks, a volunteer team of 23 members from Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church will travel to Juarez, Mexico, for a week-long partnership with a local, Mexican church (La Iglesia Maranatha). For CCPC, this partnership with the pastor and church has been ongoing for some 25 years. The volunteer team will be assisting local church members with several construction projects in the neighborhood and also hosting a Vacation Bible School for local children. The team expects to reach out to upwards of 70 children during the VBS time. In addition to the church and the VBS, La Iglesia Maranatha also runs a community kitchen that visits local schools and identifies and feeds impoverished students a healthy lunch every day - kids who

    Oct 15,

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