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Warren, Michelle

With deep gratitude & joy

by Warren, Michelle on October 19, 2020

Dear CCDA Family, It is with deep gratitude and joy that I close my season as CCDA’s Advocacy & Strategic Engagement Director. I feel deep gratitude for the opportunity to have served our association from inside the CCDA organization and deep joy that it was a season spent with countless [...]
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Planting Seeds of Hope

by Warren, Michelle on May 29, 2018

A reflection on the intersection of gardening & activism I’ve been thinking about seeds a lot lately. It’s Spring, and I’m a gardener. Years ago I moved to a house with a small patch of dirt  – about three square feet. One day as I was at my local Walgreens I saw seed packets marked 10 for $1. [...]
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Filed Under: Conference, General, Justice Initiatives & Advocacy Tagged With: hope, spring

Hispanic Evangelical Leaders Send Letter to DHS Secretary Kelly

by Warren, Michelle on June 1, 2017

In celebration of Pentecost Sunday national leaders request meeting and seat at the table around immigration security & policing Hispanic Evangelical leaders from four national organizations: Esperanza USA, the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, the Christian Community Development [...]
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Locked in Solidarity

by Warren, Michelle on January 14, 2017

The beginning of a new year can be a time of reflection - for most. A fresh start or clean slate to make resolutions, to recommit to the work we are doing, the opportunity to begin again. But for many in our communities, the impact of incarceration looms regardless of new seasons. Men, women, and [...]
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Filed Under: Justice Initiatives & Advocacy, Mass Incarceration Tagged With: Featured, locked in solidarity

Obedience

by Warren, Michelle on December 19, 2016

"For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn" This simple line from the well-known Christmas hymn, "O Holy Night" depicts the disruption of light, seen from a distance, yet breaking through darkness that first Christmas thousands of years ago. As we come to our final week in Advent, we are [...]
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Filed Under: Devotionals, General Tagged With: advent

El Camino — FAQs

by Warren, Michelle on March 14, 2016

Who we are?  We are leaders in the Christian Community Development Association, Jesus followers seeking justice for immigrant friends in our communities. What we are doing?  We are walking the approximately 150 miles from Tijuana, Mexico to Los Angeles, California, USA from August 20th-30th [...]
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Filed Under: Justice Initiatives & Advocacy Tagged With: camino, camino stories

Locked in Solidarity 2015

by Warren, Michelle on January 28, 2015

Today is the day I choose to walk out my truth. I am a former offender and I was incarcerated. I have been home for three years and during that time I experienced some of the best and worst moments of my life, specifically carrying feelings of shame and guilt.... The stigma of being labeled a felon [...]
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Filed Under: General, Justice Initiatives & Advocacy, Listening to the Community, Mass Incarceration Tagged With: locked in solidarity

On Advent & A Season of Giving: Hope

by Warren, Michelle on December 2, 2014

Isaiah 9:2 (the Message) The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. For those who lived in a land of deep shadows-- light! sunbursts of light! Advent is a season recognized throughout church traditions to anticipate and await the arrival of Jesus. The Word that had been hoped [...]
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Filed Under: Devotionals, Justice Initiatives & Advocacy, Mass Incarceration Tagged With: advent, locked in solidarity

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