Our Goal with Club Dust is:

Serve God's people in simple obedience to James 1:27, no ifs, ands, or "someday" - Just Do It!

Club Dust members serve through the opportunity of building for extremely poor families in the border towns of Tijuana and Tecate, Mexico. We believe that this experience of service  can be life changing for Christians and non-Christians alike.

Club Dust is different than typical mission trips. At Club dust you can look forward to water balloon fights, whirlpools in the pool, fresh tacos and optional camping in the ranch horse pasture.  The people involved interact with each other through morning bible talks, group discussions, singing & talent shows. We have a high return rate with our summer trips reaching 300-350 participants and the winter trips averaging 200+ people.

Continued contributions have allowed us to cover the cost of the building materials.   This enables us to charge a very low $200.00 per person for the 4 days at Club Dust. This includes transportation from San Diego Airport to work site and ranch, lodging, meals, and an authentic Club Dust T-shirt. 

We hope that you too will catch the 'Vision' of spreading God's love by meeting His people's needs in a tangible way.  Not just saying it - doing it, & having fun in the adventure of doing it!

We challenge our participants to spilt off into their own adventures after several trips with us. This allows for each group to form, run and serve in it's own unique style.

In this web site we have listed our contacts, schedules & lessons learned both good and bad!

God Bless,

Club Dust team

CLUB DUST INC

In 1980, clubdust's founder and a group of  friends formed a Missions adventure organization called Club Dust.  CD participants serve through the opportunity of building homes and the donating of family essentials such as food, clothes and shoes . 

In August 2002, Club Dust became a California nonprofit corporation. Club dust has  NO administrative overhead to any donations .

Various folks, some of whom have been involved over the years and some that are newcomers, donate the homes and donations. We encourage folks who fund a house to be personally involved to see the real fruit of their monies . During these trips we will also give away food and clothing to the families living in the hills outside Tijuana.

We have had more than 300 people for the last two summer builds and over 250 signed up for the most recent winter trip. Each person pays his/her own transportation to San Diego plus $200 for the cost of the trip into Mexico.  That money covers transportation from the San Diego airport on day 1 and back again to the airport 5 days later. It also covers your basic lodging in Mexico and all meals along with a custom printed Club dust t-shirt. Historically, all food and water has been brought in from the US except for 2 dinners that we have catered by a local Taquiera in Tecate.

We normally have a doctor or registered nurse on each trip. We have an emergency evacuation plan in event of serious injury and all of the leaders have walkie-talkies or cell phones to communicate with each other. Over the past 29 years we have taken many thousands of people into Mexico and built over 1000 homes. Club dust has split off into many small, regional groups across the nation.  These new groups are people who have come with us a few times already and are ready to branch out on their own. These include Malibu (CA), Covina (CA), Gilroy (CA), Annapolis (MD), Connecticut, Arizona, 2 groups from Washington State, and 2 groups from New York.

Integral to the ongoing existence of Club Dust is the determination of staying a small, hands-on efficient organization. Special pricing for shoes came thanks to Payless Shoes corporate. Club Dust’s goal is to always stay negative on overhead and to find new ways to provide for these underprivileged, but beautiful families in Mexico.

The cost of each home and latrine is  $5,750. The price includes the cost of the concrete pad and all of the  materials needed to build a 16'x20' including lumber, drywall, windows, doors and hardware, paint, composite shingle roofing and electrical (note: even though there is no electricity or running water on the sites today it'll eventually become available as the neighborhood becomes established.) Each home is provided with light fixtures and dual outlets in each of the three rooms. The latrine cost covers the cost of digging the 4' X 4' X 8' foot hole, lining the pit with bricks and installing a concrete pad, venting, wooden structure, roofing and even a fiberglass throne. The house itself is 16' x 20' with another 160 square feet of living space created by the loft for the children. When finished it is a great house, which quickly becomes a home after we turn over the keys to the new owners once the construction is done.

The Club Dust teams also build furniture sets consisting of a dining table and two benches as well as a bunkbed for each home. This is a fairly new addition to Club dust and it came from Ken Payne, a participant on several trips over the years. It is his belief that a house is hardly a home without furniture inside. Ken funds the materials and leads the entire project inside each Club dust trip that he goes on.