For the past six years, Alpine Christian Academy’s high school students have been traveling to the Copper Canyon area of Mexico for mission trips. The students have been helping out with the Mission Tarahumara hospital in Samachique. They helped build housing for the families of the people in the hospital. Students dug and poured the foundation for the extension on Mayra’s clinic in Pamachi. During a famine the kids backpacked beans out to families around Mayra’s clinic. People, who were starving and literally had nothing left, now received food.

   The students have helped build a fence around the landing strip of the international airport for the hospital, in order help keep the Tarahumarans off of the landing strip when the planes fly in to land.  

   The students have had an awesome opportunity to interact with the Tarahumaran people. They were able to live around them in such a way as to better understand the people and their ure. The students always look forward to these mission trips. They get to really experience the way people live and the struggles they have to go through. The students end up finding out how little hope the Tarahumaran people have for their futures. They are not just Mexicans, they have an entirely different language that differs from one valley to another—most of them do not even speak Spanish. The ACA students travel to this area of the world to help these people, to give them hope, and to offer them things that not even their own country can give them.

   This year the 9^th and 10^th graders will be traveling to Juarez, Mexico to help Dr. Marco  with an orphanage.