We worked to provide hope and healing to a city ruled by corruption which kept the people in poverty, and low-paying jobs coupled with little opportunity for higher education mixed with generations of violence and lack of vision for a better future.
Nogales was known for its illegal border activities. From smuggling humans across the border to drugs and lawlessness working to infiltrate the United States,
This is not the way to a better future for the innocent children growing up in these towns. So we did what any loving neighbors would do. We poured out blessings of toys, clothes, and food for the families struggling in the community.
Jesus tells his followers to never repay evil with evil, so we fought back by invading their city with an overabundance of blessings week after week. We would pop up a canopy in front of the hospital and start feeding and providing clothes and Bibles to everyone camping outside the hospitals waiting to see their sick family members. If they allowed us to go inside the hospital, we would pray for as many sick as possible, and we would pass out care packages with little Spanish books on healing by Charles Capp.
The first few times we did this was a pretty big battle, and we were treated like criminals for trying to help by both the American border patrol and the Mexican border patrol, as well as the people in charge of the hospital security and the local authorities.
But after a while, the people started to change, and they realized that we were not the bad guys who wanted to cause them harm, but we were the ones sent by the Lord to help them be free and live by faith, hope, and love rather than fear and control of the cartels.
This caused a shift for the people witnessing us doing these things, and soon they were all wanting to help us hand out food and pray for the people on the streets.
At Christmas, we showed up with a cargo van and two SUV’s filled to the max with presents for the children. The people lined up in the street as my friend’s family handed out toys to all the kids. The Lord’s heart was being seen in action for the people suffering without understanding of who He was and what He could do, but we wanted them to know that they didn’t have to steal or break the law to survive, but they could pray and believe all that God has promised is available for them to receive and be blessed.
Many of our trips were spent making lunches to hand out to the men begging to wash car windows to get enough to eat or feed their families for the day. We would find people in the trash dumps and bring them food, clothes, and special gifts like boxes of Valentine’s Day chocolates to let them know God did not forget them. We purchased bags of groceries for the elderly, single moms, and grandmothers raising their grandchildren.
We initially went there to meet with local churches and orphanages to see how we could support them, but we realized that we would have to show them by example because they were not able to see yet how God works and makes everything possible when His people step out and start doing good.
Those were the visible things people saw us doing, but the behind-the-scenes work was of the utmost importance.
Prayers had to go up night and day for the changes needed for that City, and we needed the citizens to be the ones crying out to God in faith, so we had one family specifically devoted to prayer, which later led to us meeting some other church leaders who had some miracle testimonies of transformed lives that we invited to the busy park to share as we did a public baptism celebration.
We supported an orphanage in Imuris, Mexico. We helped them update and make the accommodations safe that had been run into ruins by the former staff that had done things unspeakable that caused the whole community to be against the orphanage. We looked past those things in order to help the children still in their care have what they needed.
We were finally finished with our time there after pouring out truckloads of supplies, food, clothes, shoes, toys, building materials and paying workers to get the improvements done. We left them in God’s care in order to turn our focus back to the United States, which was being crippled by poor leadership and a lack of understanding of the times and seasons of God.
There is still a great need for support for these people and with so much oppression there we really need an army of intercessors willing to fight for that city and nation with tears and heartfelt repentance and prayers that don’t cease until God has moved every mountain and poured out His spirit on all flesh so that they no longer live in darkness.
I just want to mention that when Trump began deporting all the illegal immigrants from the United States back to Mexico, I kept silent because it was a matter of the people breaking the laws of a land they were wanting to be free in which doesn’t really work well. You can’t be free when you live in fear of being deported so it calls for better solutions by the people in both nations, because our nation should be fighting for the people in that nation to be set free in prayers, and the citizens of Nogales should be praying and asking for ways to improve their own communities through job creation, education and receiving what God has for them.
Ultimately the people must take responsibility for their own actions and help their communities by seeking God and asking for help themselves and then being willing to do what God puts on their hearts to do no matter what the cost!
The future generations are depending on them doing the right thing so they can have better.
Chandler House of Prayer 
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