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Life at Mission ABQ

Meals, gardens, day camp, and the neighbors and volunteers who make it all happen.

Food & meals Gardens Kids & day camp Classes & community Serving together

Food & meals

Teens packing boxes of fresh produce in the food bank — Teens packing produce in the food bank

Volunteers sorting food at long tables — Sorting food for distribution

A crowded food bank room full of volunteers — Food bank volunteers

A volunteer bagging bananas in the food bank — Bagging fresh fruit

Volunteers packing boxes of groceries — Packing food boxes

Teens and volunteers packing food together — Youth volunteers in the food bank

Pantry shelves stocked with canned goods — Stocked pantry shelves

Boxes of fresh vegetables — Fresh vegetables for families

A box of fresh fruit and potatoes — Free produce on the shelf

Three kitchen volunteers with a bowl of fresh fruit — Kitchen volunteers

Volunteers filling boxes with fresh produce — Fresh produce for families

A full hall of neighbors at a Christmas dinner — Christmas dinner, 2025

Long tables of neighbors at a holiday dinner — Christmas dinner, 2024

A full room of neighbors eating dinner together — Community dinner

About ninety neighbors at a harvest dinner — Harvest dinner

Neighbors sharing a meal at round tables — Sharing a meal

Neighbors at tables outside ABQ Central for Sunday breakfast — Sunday breakfast

A volunteer handing out food on a downtown street — Taking extra food to neighbors downtown

Gardens

Young volunteers with a table of harvested greens on a rooftop garden — Harvest day on the rooftop garden

Rows of raised beds on a downtown rooftop — Rooftop garden beds (photo: YES Housing)

Two volunteers clearing a raised bed — Clearing beds for the next planting

Volunteers in rain gear planting a raised bed — Planting in the rain (photo: YES Housing)

Volunteers washing fresh produce at a rooftop sink — Washing the harvest

A hand holding a bunch of fresh radishes — Fresh radishes (photo: YES Housing)

A pile of freshly harvested squash — Squash harvest (photo: YES Housing)

A crate of sweet potatoes — Sweet potatoes (photo: YES Housing)

A refrigerator stocked with fresh garden produce — Garden produce for residents (photo: YES Housing)

Marigolds blooming in a garden bed — Marigolds (photo: YES Housing)

A team of volunteers in matching shirts in a rooftop garden — Rooftop garden volunteers

Hoop-covered raised beds on a rooftop — Rooftop hoop beds

Raised beds in a rooftop garden downtown — Rooftop garden

Residents and volunteers working a raised garden bed — Community garden workday

Teens building raised garden beds on the South Valley campus — South Valley teens building garden beds

Teens digging a new garden on the South Valley campus — Starting the South Valley garden

A big group of kids planting in raised beds — Kids planting the garden beds

Residents with fresh tomatoes, eggplant and carrots — Harvest day

Kids & day camp

Kids and volunteers at the day camp celebration — Spring Break Day Camp celebration

Day camp volunteers in matching shirts — Day camp team

Kids singing on stage — Singing on stage

Two volunteers in front of a painted garden door — Day camp volunteers

Children and a teacher in front of a mural on the Kingdom Builders playground — Kingdom Builders playground

Kids eating lunch at a long table — Lunch at camp

Kingdom Builders staff holding the NM Grown BLOSSOM Award — Kingdom Builders: NM Grown BLOSSOM Award

Classes & community

Women gathered around a table at the Mission Training Center — Ladies’ Tuesday Discipleship at the MTC

A Getting Ahead group setting out a meal before class — Getting Ahead group getting ready to share a meal before class

A hand-painted sign reading Lavado Gratis — Laundry Love: free laundry night in the South Valley

Neighbors at an outdoor table, one in a Turning Corners shirt — Father’s Day celebration, South Valley

Families at tables on the lawn outside the South Valley church — Father’s Day celebration, South Valley

Volunteers in holiday hats at Angel Tree — Angel Tree, 2025

Families at red tables at a Christmas dinner — Christmas dinner

Teens sorting clothing on racks in the Free Store — Teens volunteering in the Grace FREE Store

Serving together

A mission team posing on the South Valley campus lawn — Team from Good Shepherd Ministries, Dayton, Ohio, at MTC

An older man and a woman laughing together — Neighbors

Volunteers in Santa hats at a Christmas event — Christmas volunteers

A mission team in matching red shirts — Mission team

A youth mission team in a supply room — Youth mission team

A work crew in front of the Sandia Church sign — Work crew at ABQ Central

Volunteers repairing a roof on the South Valley campus — Roof repair, South Valley campus

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