Our Hope

Latinos come to LUCHA Ministries with a wide variety of needs and concerns. While we cannot solve all the problems of the Latino community, our hope is that we can walk beside our Latino friends and neighbors in their struggles, connect them with helpful and available resources in our community, and share the message of Christ with them along the way.

Just like all people, Latinos face the daily struggles of food, clothing, housing, employment, transportation, and healthcare. Some must also deal with legal status and documentation issues. Yet unlike the larger non-Latino community, Latinos deal with these matters in an environment they often do not understand. LUCHA Ministries assists Latinos by meeting basic needs as well as by facilitating access to social service, healthcare, and legal agencies willing to help.

Some Latinos are special-needs children and their families. These immigrant families appreciate the value and worth of their children, despite physical or mental disabilities or developmental delay. LUCHA Ministries helps families understand how to raise their children in the US context to be independent, productive members of the community.

Other Latinos face physical illness and impairment. The ability to support one’s family is a primary concern, especially when an immigrant worker has left family in his or her country and has come to the US alone to find a job and send money back home. LUCHA Ministries puts together support networks and directs human needs ministries that address physical needs as well as provide compassionate listeners to help the individual or family cope with the emotions of loneliness, confusion, guilt and fear.

Still others are victims of abuse, crime or discrimination. LUCHA Ministries believes that every human being, regardless of legal status, race, gender or nationality, has infinite value and worth and deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Our coordinators and volunteers are committed to fostering a sense of self-worth in everyone with whom we work.

Finally, Latinos frequently relate their religious faith as foundational to who they are and how they understand the world. LUCHA Ministries is a Christian organization devoted to sharing faith in Jesus Christ as well as learning from our Latino friends and neighbors of their faith journey, all with the advancement and growth of the Kingdom of God in view.