Homes of Hope
In its first 25 years, from 1990 to 2015, Homes of Hope built 5,140 homes worldwide.
As excerpted from “How It All Started”
By Sean Lambert, president of YWAM San Diego/Baja & Founder of Homes of Hope
In May of 1990, a group of twelve of us traveled from Los Angeles to Tijuana to build one house for a needy Mexican family. My three-year-old daughter, Andrea, came along; she was too young to help, but for some reason I took her anyway. As we painted and hammered the wood, I could not help but notice another family nearby watching us from an abandoned old bus pitched on a hill. Since the engine and hood were gone, the family was using that space to cook their food. Andrea soon connected with the children living in the bus and came over to me with a concerned look, saying,
“DADDY, ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR THE BUS PEOPLE TOO?”
Her words touched my heart and echoed in my head all the way back home. When I got back to Los Angeles, I began calling various youth groups who were scheduled to join us in Tijuana that summer for outreach. One of groups accepted my challenge and we built a second house for the “bus people.”
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Youth With A Mission (YWAM), San Diego/Baja
Youth With A Mission (YWAM) is a global movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to presenting Jesus personally to this generation, to mobilizing as many as possible to help in this task, and to the training and equipping of believers for their part in fulfilling the Great Commission. As citizens of God’s kingdom, we are called to love, worship, and obey our Lord, to love and serve His Body, the Church, and to present the whole gospel for the whole person throughout the whole world.