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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 pm PT: Dirreciones
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IN THE US: We gather on the US side at W-8 at 1:00 pm PT: Contact for Directions
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LIVESTREAM: We begin at / Empezamos a las 1:30 pm PT: Facebook Live
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ABOUT:
The Border Church / La Iglesia Fronteriza is a nonsectarian Christian ministry centered in the celebration of open-table communion on the U.S.-Mexico border.​ ​Since November 2011, people from both the United States and Mexico have gathered each Sunday afternoon to share communion at Friendship Park, the historic border meeting place at the western edge of the border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Friends from near and far also join us "in the Cloud" via Facebook Live. This Sunday celebration is also known as "EL FARO," because we gather in the shadow of Tijuana's landmark lighthouse, a reminder that God's grace shines indiscriminately on all. Somehow, mysteriously, the border wall becomes the table of the Lord.
MISSION:
To follow Jesus and seek the reign of God by breaking bread
along and across the San Diego-Tijuana border.
VISION:
That God’s love would reign over the US-Mexico borderlands so
that all people, sitting together at a common table, would experience
heaven on earth.
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). Literally and figuratively, we accompany displaced persons as an act of solidarity with them, our human siblings.
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Friendship (Proverbs 17:17). We meet at Friendship Park and embody its named desire as a people committed to befriend people across divisions.
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Transformation (2 Corinthians 3:18). By contemplating on 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.