Sagrado Corazon Mission Church
The Sagrado Corazon Mission Church is located 30 miles south of Grand Canyon at Valle, Arizona. It was founded through the initiatives of the community, who wanted to nourish their Catholic faith through their own cultural upbringing as Hispanic Catholic. Our Celebration is bilingual to accommodate the non-hispanic congregation.
This community is very much alive even in the midst of their poverty. Their unity as one family of God is their strong asset as seen by their initiative to improve their own chapel even without the encouragement of the pastor. The makeshift chapel continues to improve through salvage materials they found along the garbage. Different furnitures that are discarded from the different hotels found their usefulness in this humble chapel.
Their celebrations especially on the feastday of Sacred Heart and of Our Lady of Guadalupe are characterized by festive and colorful adornment of the small chapel. Traditional singing (mananita) and dancing (Native Indian dances) are always part of their devotion to honor their beloved Lady of Guadalupe. Their fiesta is not complete without the Native food of Mexican delicacies.
Right now the community is raising money in preparation to build their new church with a proper insulation, plumbing, restrooms & a sacristy.
I would to thank our visitors for their continues support to our project in raising fund to build the mission. In spite of this global pandemic, you continue to give your treasure just to ensure we can realize our dream of having a new and decent church.
Its been almost 5 years now since we started our fund raising program and we have already raised almost 3/4 of our goal. As we are nearing our financial target, we are already in the process of talking to our architect and other disciplines for the paper works. The process is painstaking and in a turtle pace because it is a collaboration of the different ideas and plans coming from different disciplines. All of them should synchronized from the smallest details to the most important aspect of the building.
Once they all synchronized the county and the diocese will have to make their approval and the next step of the construction will commence. We are excited to see the beginning of the an historical event in our community in the coming year and we are hoping and praying that it will go smoothly through the help of God and under the protection and guidance of our Blessed Mother, the Lady of Guadalupe.
In the meantime, we ask your prayers to help us attain our noble dream to finish our church. We thank you for your patience understanding of our situation.