Piedras Negras, Mexico Update
We have just completed our 20th year and our 557th house: we are looking forward to our 21st. Please visit our pages and view our work. Thank you.
Welcome to the Official Web Site of Constructores Para Cristo (CPC)
We are a not-for-profit, incorporated, faith-based organization based in Birmingham, Alabama and working in Northern Mexico. Our mission is two-fold:
FIRST: CPC seeks to provide basic housing, medical care and education for poor, working Mexican families who often live in desperate conditions.
SECOND: CPC offers groups and churches in the United States and Canada week-long, international, short-term mission work/retreats in Mexico.
The groups are encouraged to be intergenerational, although that is not a requirement. Youth groups are welcome with a ratio of two adults to one youth. The work is such that there is a place for everyone: men and women of all ages and skill levels. Housing is provided in a clean, air conditioned motel in Mexico that is well-known to us (photo at right).
Under CPC supervision, each group builds and dedicates a three-room, concrete block house. The family that will occupy the house works with the group and also provides a small portion of the cost