Back2Back News

Partnering with Back2Back Mexico

August 31st, 2010

Given the recent media attention regarding violence in Mexico, we’d like to update you on the current safety status in Monterrey, as it relates to the Back2Back campus. 

Back2Back actively monitors all potential security threats, continually gathering information and assessing the level of potential risk – including the opinions of our staff, who along with their families, live, drive and shop in and around Monterrey.  In addition, the US State Department provides us with the latest safety alerts, allowing us to stay updated and informed at all times. We take the security of our staff, our staff families and teams very seriously, being cautious to not under-react to the incidences of violence and thereby jeopardize their safety. In the event we believe the risk of danger is significant, our policy is to cancel or postpone all incoming mission teams.  In fact, just last summer, all trips to Nigeria were postponed in response to an uprising of violence near our ministry base in Jos.  If, based on news reports and our observations, we determine the situation in Mexico is too risky, we will take similar action and cancel or postpone all incoming mission teams.  At this time, we do not feel that such action is necessary. 

For thirteen years, Back2Back Mexico has been facilitating church, family and corporate mission trips without incident.  We thank God for His protection and His provisioning.  And as we trust Him, we also join with Him in taking measures to appropriately safeguard those who’ve been entrusted to our care.  Numerous safety precautions were implemented in 2009, and with reports of increased violence earlier this year additional measures were taken to assure our response was commensurate with the risks.

Our mission is to provide care for today and hope for tomorrow, to the orphans in Mexico, Nigeria and India.  Monterrey is the 3rd largest city in Mexico, with a population of six million, including the neighboring communities of Guadalupe and San Nicolas. There is inevitable conflict in a city of this size, but we have and will continue to take every precaution in order to maintain the safety of teams who, with us, desire to serve the abandoned, abused and neglected children of Monterrey. 

Please contact Casey Foreman, Operations Director, Chris Ramos, Director of Missions, or Chelsie Puterbaugh, Mission Trip Coordinator, at 513-754-0300 with any further questions or concerns.