Ninety-two golfers hit the links on Friday, October 28, 2011, as YLM hosted it’s 3rd annual golf tournament at Vista Hills Country Club in El Paso. The event is one of YLMHC’s most significant fundraising events of the year, with the proceeds going to fund its many human care outreach efforts. Not to be deterred [...]
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What do you see at Christmas?
Here at YLM, we see a mountain of boxes taking up the pristine open space created by the Our Father Lutheran Church Alternative Thanksgiving servant event, who laid new white tile in one of our offices…in a good way! Earlier this week, we received a shipment containing 2000 copies of Things I See at Christmas, [...]
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Christmas Catalog 2011
If you didn’t receive a glossy, color copy of our Christmas Catalog in your mailbox, check out this equally snazzy online version! Click here to donate online. Wishing you and yours a blessed Advent and a very Merry Christmas!
Laying it all Down
Thanksgiving 2011 was celebrated at some of YLM’s mission churches in El Paso and Juarez with the annual group of holiday servants from Our Father Lutheran Church in Centennial, CO. Over three days, they served 1200 plates of turkey with all the fixin’s for San Pablo, San Lucas, Santisima Trinidad, and YLM’s Saturday volunteers, and [...]
October Servant Event is “none of your beeswax!”
YLM’s one and only October servant event (10/22-10/28/11) is “none of your beeswax!” Or perhaps it is, because the group, from St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Barrington, IL, painted their house “Beeswax” yellow! Four of the five team members fell in love with YLM through St. Matthew Barrington, but these days they actually represented 4 [...]
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Support YLM Volunteer Youth Worker Jeff Boone!
YLM volunteer youth worker Jeff Boone plans to return to El Paso one week from today, on November 10, 2011. This will be Jeff’s third stint of 2-3 months serving on the border. In the past, he has filled a vital role that full-time mission staff members do not have the flexibility to fill in [...]
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Music Classes in Juarez Continue
There is much exciting news to report related to music classes that continue at YLM’s mission sites in Mexico: –The youth at both Cristo Rey and San Lucas are holding fundraisers so that they will be able to purchase more guitars. Each church has a few, but so many students are excited about the opportunity [...]
Bundle up!
It may not seem like it, but colder weather is coming soon to the borderland! We here at Ysleta Lutheran Mission (YLM) want to make sure that as many children and families as possible have the means to bundle up against winter’s chills, which we do by providing winter coats and blankets to those in [...]
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Sing to the Lord a new song, for He IS DOING marvelous things!
Rev. Jose Hernandez reported at today’s staff meeting about a new service being offered at his church, Santisima Trinidad: free family therapy. Sra. Nora Martinez is the volunteer therapist. A baptized Roman Catholic, she knew of Santisima through her sister, Blanca Hernandez, who happens to be Pastor Hernandez’s wife. Nora is studying toward a second [...]
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The Trusty Old Burro
In recent years, all travel to Sicachique has taken place thanks to a man named Jim Kunkle. Jim has a dual connection to the tiny community. The Albuquerque, NM native and retired astronomy professor is a devout lover of YLM. During the summer of 2006, he spent an entire summer volunteering here in El Paso. [...]
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