BINATIONAL COMMUNION CELEBRATION /
CELEBRACIÓN BINACIONAL de la COMUNIÓN
EVERY SUNDAY, friends from San Diego, Tijuana, and around the world gather for our weekly celebration of binational communion at Friendship Park, the historic meeting place on the US-Mexico border. Somehow, the border wall mysteriously becomes a table for communion, where all are welcome. Afterward, through our collaboration with our friends at Via Migrante and the Casa de Luz, a hot, nutritious meal is shared free of charge on the Mexico side of Friendship Park. ​Due to the park's closure on the US side, we are currently meeting at Whisky-8, a site at which people stuck in open-air detention are served spiritually, emotionally, and physically through our work and that of many partners.
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Join us at any one of three locations: / Acompañanos en cualquier de nuestros tres sitios:
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EN MÉXICO: Nos reunimos al muro fronterizo empezando a las 1:00 p.m. PT: Dirreciones
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IN THE US: We gather on the US side at W-8 at 1:00 p.m. PT: Contact for Directions
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LIVESTREAM: We begin at / Empezamos a las 1:30 p.m. PT: Facebook Live
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ABOUT:
The Border Church / La Iglesia Fronteriza is an interdenominational Christian ministry on unceded Kumeeyay land at the Tijuana-San Diego border.​ ​From November 2011 to February 2020, people from the United States and Mexico gathered at Friendship Park on Sunday afternoons to share communion at Friendship Park, where the Lord's table stood open to all. Since February 2020 (before any local pandemic lockdowns), we have been locked out of the U.S. side of our worship space and have been a migrating congregation on this side while friends in Mexico continue to worship, dine, and minister to displaced persons at the Tijuana side of Friendship Park every Sunday. Despite our separation, the ministry of unity we offer stands as resistance to separating forces at our border.
MISSION:
To practice the presence of God publicly along and across the Tijuana-San Diego border by (1) worshiping at the wall, (2) ministering to those impacted by the border, and (3) advocating for our sacred space — for the sake of offering loving unity in a divided world.
VISION:
We envision God’s love arriving fully along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands so that all in this place would experience the presence of heaven on earth in this place.
VALUES:
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Faith, Hope, Love (1 Corinthians 13:13). These historic Christian virtues form the core of our belief and practice.
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Accompaniment (Ruth 1:16). We literally and figuratively accompany displaced persons as an act of solidarity with them, our human siblings.
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Friendship (Proverbs 17:17). Meeting at Friendship Park (and in trying to get back there), we embody its named desire as a people committed to befriend people across divisions.
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Transformation (2 Corinthians 3:18). By contemplating God’s glory and working for the good together, we are transformed spiritually.
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Peace (Matthew 5:9). We accept Christ’s peace and seek to enact it on the border.