Arrow Outreach, Inc. is a non profit corporation in the state of Texas. The ministry has set expenses related to pastor salaries and utilities at the Mexican churches and would welcome your non-designated gifts to cover these recurring expenses. The various church sponsored outreaches in the Juarez community bring with them specific gifts for the projects they are working on. Other gifts are given by churches, individuals, and groups all through the year. Donations by check can be mailed to:
Arrow Outreach, Inc.
8442 FM 16
Van, TX 75790-2630
We hope you can learn more about this ministry through browsing this site.
Arrow Outreach is a ministry which operates on the outskirts of Juarez a border city in northern Mexico. The city has a population of almost 2 million people with a large percentage of them being very poor. The ministry consists of working with youth and families, both from the United States and Mexico in Mexican church growth and development. This is accomplished through training, evangelism, construction, medical and hygiene care, and other community involvement, as the need and opportunity arises.
The Director of Arrow Outreach is Rich Mackey, who resides in Van, Texas with his wife Cheryl. They have three sons; Brett attending high school in Van, Wade at Baylor University in Waco, Texas and Scott who attends George Fox University in Portland, Oregon.
The Mackey Family at home in Van, Texas.
Left to right: Scott, Cheryl, Wade, Rich, Brett.
Rich serves as the facilitator, bringing in and hosting American church teams in Juarez. The teams form an effective bi-cultural partnership allowing the short term visitors to contribute to the long term impact of the local churches in the colonias (villages). These teams stay at the Torribeo Family Center, which doubles as the home base for the visiting teams, as well as a ministry center to the community. Year round the Family Center serves the area through a mission church, medical clinic, youth activities, conferences, clothing distribution and educational tutoring. This four Building complex composed of a dorm, clinic, cafeteria, mission church and parsonage is located on one acre of land. This facility was constructed by Rich and his church partners beginning in 1996. It is operated by the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Mexico, headed by Robellio Roblero, a pastor with whom Rich has worked since 1989. Additionally, in that same time period his teams have helped construct another Family Center, repair or expand seven church buildings, built eight homes, and been actively involved with youth camps, vacation bible schools and Christmas parties with these local churches.
The most recent large project undertaken was helping to construct a new school in a very poor Colonia 20 miles south of the city in the desert. Arrow Outreach is working with a new church in this community, which brings to 10, the total number of pastors, from various denominations with which we are partnering.
Annual outreaches include sharing the gospel through................
*Bible Studies
*Church Dicipleship programs
*Conducting Vacation Bible Schools
*Conducting Youth / Basketball Camps
*Giving Christmas Parties for the children
*Building functional 320 square foot homes for families (several per year)
*Repairing homes
*Operating a clinic at the Family Center
*Distributing practical hygiene items to those in need
*After school tutoring of youth at the Family Center
*Computer literacy training
*Upgrading church facilities
*Underwriting the salaries of pastoral and medical care
*Building a new school
*Distributing school supplies and scholarships to students at the new school and elsewhere
*Creating a Safe Haven for the area youth at the Family Center
God is directing many things which are going on simultaneously within Arrow Outreach ministry areas. He is developing "springs in the desert" and fulfilling many dreams and meeting many needs through the partnerships formed between the Mexican churches and the partner entities in the U. S.
This site was last updated 6/23/07.
