Ojala Ministries

Our mission is to encourage and provide opportunities for participants to help others in the U.S. and Mexico, especially by building homes for needy families in Mexico. We strive to create a Christian community among the participants each year. We train participants in construction and leadership skills and educate them about Mexican traditions and the culture of poverty. We are a Christian/Catholic-inspired group and incorporate daily prayer, reflection, Bible sharing and Mass into our program.

Ojala Ministries is fortunate that God has granted us the means and the opportunity to positively impact three families throughout Tijuana, Mexico every year! The good we do has a ripple effect, like a stone being thrown in a pond. This goes far beyond the families we serve; the teenagers who participate in this act of selfless service are impacted profoundly and go on to become leaders within their communities.

Since 1992, Donna and Jack Walton have led groups of teenagers and adults from Concord, CA area on a mission to Mexico to build houses for those in need over Easter Week. Over the years, people of countless faiths have made this journey with us to celebrate and participate in Our Lord's Resurrection, each by giving a little of ourselves to help others.

Not everyone is able to travel to Mexico, but our hearts are filled with gratitude for the many ways they are able to help. Gifts of time, money and material have been granted so freely and with such loving generosity, right here in the US. The teens write letters to friends and relatives asking for support, sell tickets to a benefit dinner and hand out "uncommon stock" offers after masses in order to raise a total of $75,000 to build two houses. Thank you to all the people who have enabled us to go on this mission each year. We pray for God's bounty to bless all the families we have been privileged to help, because in helping them we too have been blessed.