Your friendship and generosity make this possible.  Together with you, we are instruments of peace and hope in Guaymas.

    Fr. Martín Ibarra, OFM

“The final word does not belong to fear, poverty, or despair - but to love.”

Once a month on a Saturday morning, the street outside the mission quietly fills. Elderly neighbors arrive—many leaning on canes, waiting patiently for their monthly food box. This monthly food offering sustains them for a couple of weeks.

Others live in the outer areas beyond Guaymas, too far to walk to the mission. Each month, the team loads the van and delivers food boxes directly to these distant neighborhoods.

Doña Irma Rodríguez, living alone on the outskirts of Guaymas, receives monthly food support delivered directly to her home.

Migrant families from southern Mexico receive food support during harvest season, as parents labor in the fields and older children care for their younger brothers and sisters.

Outside Guaymas, where the afternoon wind lifts dust from the roads, where water is trucked in only once a week, and where the children run barefoot across hard-packed earth,  the Jimenez Family hosts an annual shoe-and-backpack drive and the celebration of Las Posadas during Christmas.

The Night of the Fire

 Before the tables and donations became an annual sight, the family’s world caught fire in the night. Flames raced through their small home while they slept. There was no time to collect anything—only enough time to gather one another. Everyone survived, some with burns, all with the shock that lingers long after flames fade. By morning, no house remained. With nowhere else to turn, they went to the Mission in Guaymas. The Mission fed them, clothed them, helped them rebuild, and stayed until walls stood again where ashes had been.

Children from the Yaqui community receive shoes in the heat of summer, in preparation for the school year.

Children from the same community receive food and gifts during Las Posadas in December.

Every gift you give becomes part of this story of new life.

Together, we help families rise after hardship.

Together, we help children step into the future with dignity.

Together, we affirm that love, not fear, has the final word.

Thank you for being with us this Easter, and for helping Resurrection continue to take flesh in Guaymas, one life at a time.

When people hear the word “Newsletter,” they often picture a half-read piece of mail that is then recycled. For us at Casa Franciscana Outreach—Scottsdale and Guaymas, newsletters are entirely different.

                            Every issue we create is a living letter across borders -

- from the Mission to donors, from one community to another, from lived experience to those who may never physically stand with the people the Mission serves, but whose hearts are there.

This Easter, we affirm the promise that resurrection is not only a story of the past, but a living reality among us today, seen in renewed hope, restored dignity, and new life emerging where hardship once seemed to have the final word.

Following the spirit of Saint Francis of Assisi, who called us to live the Gospel with our lives and to bring joy and healing wherever we go, we recognize Easter as an invitation: to rebuild what is broken, to lift the poor and excluded, and to be instruments of love, peace, and new life for one another.

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