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The Davis Community Church visits the Arizona border between sister cities Douglas, AZ and Agua Puerta, Sonora, Mexico every few years to visit Frontera de Cristo, a Presbyterian border ministry, which they support. I went down with a group of 8 in October, 2025.
We stayed in Agua Prieta on the Mexico side of the border.
Frontera de Cristo works with and supports churches and secular organizations on both sides of the border to do Justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. These are some notes from the 2025 visit.

Some of the activities and groups we visited:

  • A walk through the desert to the wall.
  • Visited a rehab facility.
  • A prayer vigil honoring immigrants who had perished in the desert.
  • Visited a women's co-op
  • Visited Cafe Justo a sustainable, small-scale, international coffee cooperative, providing pure, organic coffee in the spirit of justice.
    Davis Community Church sells their coffee.
  • Conversation with CAME (Centro Atencion Migrante Exodus) leadership.
  • Conversation with a retired US border patrol officer.
  • Conversation with young adult volunteers

    • We were impressed by the faith and hope of the people in all of these groups.

    The area we visited is in the South East of Arizona, Between Nogales amd New Mexico.
    It was a popular crossing area for immigranats.

    The border wall looking East from Douglas
    The older sections of the wall were 18-20 feet high. Newer sections are 30 feet high.
    It's made of Steel bollards 6-inches wide 4 inches apart.
    It is set back about 3 feet from the actual border.

    Tree of Life
    A walnut tree in the middle of the desert 13 miles West of Agua Prieta, 3 miles north of highway 2 and about a mile south of the border near Agua Puerta, Sonora, Mexico where a Presbyterian church group set up a water drum and brought food to camped immigrants. There were no immigrants there during our visit.
    Immigration had dropped off in 2025,


    We walked a mile across the dessert to the wall.
    Wall view from the Tree of Life
    The mile to the the border was covered with scratchy mesquite Shrubs, few trees and home to coyotes, mountain lions, bobcats and rattlesnakes.
    However it is nothing compared to the Darién Gap, a remote, roadless, and dangerous region of tropical rainforest along the border of Panama and Colombia, which South American immigrants must cross.

    Wall 13 Miles west of Agua Prieta

    A picture from the web of scaling the wall.

    We participated in the weekly "Healing Our Borders Prayer Vigil" on Pan-American Ave., the road to the port of entry in Douglas, AZ and held up crosses with the names of many of the 486 immigrants who perished from 2000 - 2025 in Cochise County in the SouthEast corner of Arizona.
    About 1/3 of crosses are held up each week reading the name and changing "Presente!"" This is another group.

    See a Video of a previous vigil.

    Contrast: US Side vs Mexican Side of the wall

    U.S.

    Mexico

    They painted murals and put up crosses on the Mexican side of the border.


    Let us always live as brothers.
    We are all immigrants.

    Links:
    Frontera de Cristo – Building Relationships and Understanding ...

    Agua Prieta, Mexico/ Douglas, Arizona International Border | Facebook