Our Mission



In a Gospel spirit of service and solidarity, we accompany the migrant, homeless, and economically vulnerable peoples of the border region through hospitality, advocacy, and education. We place ourselves among these poor so as to live our faith and transform our understanding of what constitutes more just relationships between peoples, countries, and economies.



Philosophy



From that day in February of 1978 when the doors first opened, the volunteers of Annunciation House have sought to simply live the ‘Good News’ of the Gospel. And it has been the experience of their own deep hunger for meaning and purpose in life that has led them to seek out Jesus where he is most present, most touchable and most vibrant. It is out of a sense of their own poverty that they go in search of where that emptiness can best be filled, can best be healed and nourished.



The volunteer workers must know that Jesus demands solidarity with and among all of his poor, because it is in the wounded poor and oppressed that he brings about his kingdom and the world’s redemption. From this philosophy comes the strength to accept the simplicity of lifestyle.



From this belief comes the courage to act and even to place in risk one’s very person when justice demands it. From this ‘Good News’ comes the compassion and freedom that love must have to empower one to touch the flesh of what the world has called outcast or alien.



And all of this is done by the volunteers with many imperfections, errors, fears, moments of doubt, and with an ever present sense of their humanity and capacity to be uncharitable. Annunciation House is not a job or a work site. It is a way of being and living at a particular point in one’s life. The work is one’s life and the living is one’s work.