Soccer has deep roots at Ciudad Nueva Youth-serving organizations have long known that soccer is an excellent tool for connecting with kids and teaching them important life lessons. Christian organizations are no exception, with many churches and faith-based nonprofits sponsoring youth sports leagues as a way to help introduce kids and their families to the life-changing person of Jesus. It’s no surprise, then, that a youth soccer team comprised of middle school kids from Ciudad Nueva would form shortly after the organization’s founding in 2004. Tom Beeman, a Ciudad Nueva volunteer for … [Read more...]
Make an Impact Where You Are: A Conversation with Border Fellow Ellen Denzel
“I knew it was perfect for me” When Ellen Denzel graduated from Clemson University with a degree in industrial engineering, she could have gone anywhere. “I was looking at jobs and I had a lot of options,” Ellen says, “but I wasn’t ready to go right into an industrial engineering job.” Ellen had gone on a few international mission trips during college, and she knew that’s where her heart was. “A friend was doing the fellows program in Salt Lake City, Utah,” Ellen says. “I heard about the [Border Fellows] placement in El Paso, and when I went to the Ciudad Nueva website I knew it was perfect … [Read more...]
Meet the New Border Fellows Director, Jennifer Shinn
The Border Fellows program, a ministry of St. Clement’s Church, Ciudad Nueva Community Outreach, and La Frontera Youth Ministry Education, is a 10-month work and service leadership development program on the U.S.–Mexico border. It is part of a larger community of fellows programs across the United States called The Fellows Initiative. A Gift for Creating Community For the last two years, incoming Border Fellows Director, Jennifer Shinn, and her husband have been hosting a weekly Sunday night dinner for a group of young adults they fondly refer to as “displaced twentysomethings.” The group is … [Read more...]
Summer Camp: Testimonies from Campers and Camp Leaders
As we wrote about in the blog earlier this month, we offer the kids from our youth programs the opportunity to go to summer camp each year. It is an opportunity for campers to have experiences they might not otherwise have and a chance for them to take the next steps in their faith journeys. Here, in their own words, is what summer camp has meant to some of our campers and camp leaders over the years. Testimonies from campers “Something that I want to remember and that I learned at camp would be that God is always there with you and that you aren’t alone even if it feels like it. He has a … [Read more...]
A Day in the Life of a Middle School Camper
Each year, Ciudad Nueva offers the kids from our youth programs the opportunity to go to summer camp. Our goal is twofold: We want to give campers an opportunity to have experiences they might not otherwise have, and we want to encourage them to take the next steps in their faith journeys. If you’ve ever been to camp, you know that these two things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it’s often easier to be challenged to grow in our faith when we are in a setting that exposes us to new realities and possibilities. We recently sat down with our Youth Programs Assistant, Gustavo De Los Rios, … [Read more...]
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