Program Sites:
On the Texas/Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley
and bordering cities on the Mexican side; El Paso/Juarez,
Eagle Pass/Piedras Negras, Del Rio/Acuña; New Mexico/Mexico border in Palomas and Las Cruces; Arizona/Mexico border in Douglas/Agua Prieta, Naco/Naco, Nogales/Nogales; California/Mexico border in San Ysidro/Tecate and San Diego/Tijuana.
History:
With the exception of a small number of minor Rio Grande border
disputes, since settled, the current course of the border was finalized by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. Whether the border between Mexico and the breakaway Republic of
Texas followed the Rio Grande or the Nueces River further north was an issue never settled during the existence of that Republic, and the uncertainty was one of the direct causes of the Mexican-American War between 1846 to 1848. An earlier agreement, signed during the Mexican War of
Independence by the United States and Imperial Spain, was the 1819
Adams-Onís Treaty, which defined the border between the Republic and the colonial empire following the Louisiana Purchase of 1804.
Buckner services and border support include:
• On-going humanitarian aid through colonia community centers along the U.S. side of the border.
• On-going mission trips throughout the year ministering to the children in orphanages in Camargo and Juarez (Texas border), Nogales, Sonora, (Arizona border) and Tecate, Baja California. (California border)
• Construction groups to repair and build new houses to improve the living conditions of impoverished families living in colonias on the U.S. side of the border.
• Evangelism projects such as VBS, Backyard Bible Clubs, Block Parties, Sports Clinics, Payer Walking and Evangelistic films in border communities on both sides of the border.
• Build and help develop day care program for at-risk children of single working moms in Juarez.
• Healthcare volunteers for Medical and Dental Clinics on both sides
of the border.
You can provide change in Russia in 2008 by helping to:
• Increase awareness of needs of Latvian children and families by going on a mission trip with Buckner.
• Conducting sports camps.
• Develop local Latvian support through donor support and volunteerism.
• Develop possibility of a Latvian semi-professional basketball team to play a U.S. university basketball team.
• Provide interns and finances to assist Pastor Sergey at the Naval Port Day Center.
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Country Information
• Size: The border's length is 1,969
miles and is the most frequently
crossed international border in the
world.
• Population: The total population of
the borderlands — defined as those
counties and municipios lining the
border on either side — stands at
some 12 million people.
• Ethnic Groups: Hispanic Ameri-
cans, Anglos, Mexican Meztizos and
Indigenous groups that have
migrated to the border, Central
American immigrants
• Languages: Spanish, English and
“Spanglish”
• Religions: Roman Catholic and
Protestant
• Literacy: 58%
• Unemployment rate: 32%
• Population below poverty line:
More than one third of families on
the United States side of the border
have incomes at or below the Federal
poverty levels.
• Labor force: There are over
3,000 maquiladoras (American Twin
Factories) along the 2,000 mile-long
United States–Mexico border,
providing employment for
approximately one million workers,
and importing more than $51 billion
in supplies into Mexico.
Contact Information
Buckner International
Global Initiatives
Dexton Shores
Dshores@buckner.org
210-771-2904
Links
Global Initiatives
Buckner.org/Change
Mission Trips
ItsYourMission.com
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Buckner on the Border 
