Since 1994 Faith Ministry has been building houses in Mexican towns helping close to five thousand people. Their WE CONNECT mission teams cross the border from America into the poorest of poor Mexican communities and work with the local people to build homes for the families which need it the most. What most Americans do not realize is that just below Texas are third world conditions in some cases where families live in cardboard boxes, children do not attend school, and medical care is rarely available. For a couple of years now we have had the opportunity to work with Faith Ministry and recently were visited by their Executive Director, David Rodriguez. Upon his visit we discussed the possibility of expanding our work with him from not only building the homes once a year but a full scale project with the inclusion of a Heritable Innovation Trust as well as another M-CAM Inc. project the Global Innovation Commons. The cities in which Mr. Rodriguez and the Faith Ministry have worked face growing problems in three specific areas: lack of clean water and an abundance of both plastic and biomass. We hope that in the future we can use the open-source technology included in the Global Innovation Commons to create a solution to these problems with the outcomes being placed into a Heritable Innovation Trust. While we are in the process of working on making these projects come to life with their Board of Directors, we have hit a very large roadblock, increasing drug- related violence in the Mexican cities specifically surrounding Reynosa. We had the opportunity to touch base with him and find out how the violence is affecting him and the Faith Ministry. He informed us that the Faith Ministry is working non stop to figure out what is next and make sure that the people and families he works with are safe. He had the chance to visit Reynosa over the past few days and said that it was calm but the problem with the drug cartels is that you never know when there will be an act of violence. There have also been increasing rumors that the violence is coming from two specific cartels which are fighting over the territorial claim to illegally smuggle the drugs into the United States. While he is excited to work with us, his current focus is to make sure the people are safe. He said that he will keep people posted with updates as he knows more. We hope that everyone involved in Faith Ministry, as well as all of people of Mexico are safe and unharmed by the violence and hope that it will soon come to an end.

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