By Michelle Ferrigno Warren,Advocacy & Strategic Engagement Director To my people-the white ones,I am glad you are marching. I am glad you are feeling a sense of outrage. The movement is kindly allowing you to join so please quickly learn your place not just for this moment but for the [...]Read More
A Story of Hope: Loving Immigrants and the Homeless during Covid-19 in Austin, TX
Pastor Aaron & Dr. Michelle Reyes It was another hot day in Austin. Our shirts felt sticky from the heat as we hauled another 10-gallon jug of water to the homeless camp near our home. Tucked away under a major overpass in East Austin is a row of fifteen tents, each a different color and [...]Read More
An Educator’s Lesson in the Time of Remote Learning
by Daniel KimDevelopment Director/Faculty at Rise University Preparatory School This is not a post about how we have mastered Zoom for our 60 students at our school that serves low-income, first generation-to-college middle schoolers. I am proud though of our team of teachers and students at [...]Read More
Immigrant Communities Teach A Lesson in Faith
Reflections from Jarrett Meek, MDivPastor/Executive Director/Founder, Mission Adelante, Inc Mission Adelante did a survey of their Kansas City community during the first week of the "stay-at-home" order and found some sobering realities. There were 339 total responses; 295 [...]Read More
Building Bridges of Justice
by Christina Foor “The bridges have closed.” We heard this untimely news at the "Voices from the Desert Conference", our Southwest Border Region’s Conference in February this year. Hours before, the “Remain in Mexico” Policy had been blocked in federal court. The atmosphere at the [...]Read More
Holding onto Hope
I’ve been thinking a lot about the first Advent and the early years of Jesus’ childhood. I wonder what Mary was thinking as she brought her son into the world, so far from home. Instead of nesting she had to flee to Bethlehem. So much for planning a cozy home birth. And yet, she held [...]Read More
Without Walls or Borders
by Christina Foor One beautiful piece of the Gospel is how God weaves together stories of people from all different backgrounds. In a small migrant shelter in Juarez, Mexico, people from several divergent worlds gathered together – Cuban asylum seekers, college students from both sides of the [...]Read More
CCDA & Value Our Families Coalition
By Jamesetta Tambah On Wednesday, July 17th, I had the opportunity to advocate in Washington D.C. on behalf of my family on the issue of immigration. I am Jamesetta Tambah, the daughter of Liberian refugees who came to the United States in the early 90’s under Temporary Protected [...]Read More