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Anchor the Soul
Our vision is to see children and adults with disabilities in our community, celebrated and nurtured.
2024 IMPACT REPORT NOW AVAILABLE
Eternal Anchor’s 2024 Annual Impact Report, sent to donors in early 2025, is now available to read online. Learn more about the difference our international network of supporters is helping to make in the San Quintin Valley.
Who We Are
Eternal Anchor
In the heart of rural Mexico, our team is building a movement of inclusion—bringing people together across cultures and backgrounds to ensure that children and adults with disabilities are seen, valued, and empowered to thrive.
What We Do
We serve more than 250 families impacted by disability.
Eternal Anchor was founded in 2014 to respond to the unmet opportunity of serving individuals and families impacted by disability in the communities of rural Baja California, Mexico.
Why We’re Here
We aim to heal social divisions.
We work hard to heal social divisions so that all members of our community can be valued, experience belonging, and reach their God-given potential.
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Some projects are really just an invitation.
An invitation to sit together. To try a few words in another language. To laugh when the translation app gets it almost right. To ask about favorite movies, compare the weather in Canada and Mexico, and settle the taco debate once and for all.
Mexico won by a landslide.
This week, our partners from Bethel Lutheran Church of Sherwood Park in Alberta, Canada, spent time with young adults from the Friendship Club Without Barriers during a Mother's Day project. The activity gave everyone something to do with their hands, but the real gift was what happened around the table.
Conversation across language and culture is not always easy. But friendship does not require everything to be perfect. It grows through patience, curiosity, humor, and the willingness to keep trying.
That is why these visits matter.
This week, our partners from Bethel Lutheran Church in Alberta, Canada, spent time with young adults from the Friendship Club Without Barriers during a Mother's Day project. The activity gave everyone something to do with their hands, but the real gift was what happened around the table. lasting partnership. #Friendship #DisabilityInclusion #Partnership #Canada #Mexico ... See MoreSee Less
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A good home visit begins with listening.
Not just to symptoms or diagnoses, but to the details of daily life. Where a child sits. How they move. What the doorway allows. What the bathroom does not. What a parent has already tried. What would make care safer, movement easier, or participation more possible.
Yesterday, our Health and Therapy Services team visited several families across the San Quintin Valley. Some needs could be met through fitting and adjusting equipment. Others required building something custom, including a toilet seat designed around one child’s body, home, and daily routine.
That kind of work is not quick or one-size-fits-all. It is practical, personal, and rooted in relationship.
In-home therapy matters because the real goal is not simply to provide equipment. The goal is for support to fit the life a person is actually living. #AdaptiveEquipment #DisabilityInclusion #Belonging ... See MoreSee Less
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Some of the best parts of a visiting team week happen in the small moments.
A shared laugh. A student inviting someone into their world. A visitor slowing down long enough to notice, respond, and connect.
Today, our friends from Bethel Lutheran Church of Sherwood Park in Alberta, Canada, joined our students and staff in the ordinary rhythm of the day. And that matters.
Inclusion is not built only through big events and special programs. It grows through presence, patience, communication, and trust. It grows when visitors come ready to listen, learn , and participate with humility.
These moments help students experience new friendships. They help visitors understand the beauty and complexity of disability inclusion in the San Quintin Valley. And they remind us all that partnership is strongest when it is rooted in relationship. #disabilityinclusion #partnership #bettertogether #bajacalifornia ... See MoreSee Less
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