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Immigration

Immigration Advocacy from Charlotte, NC to the Border

by Angelica "Lica" Acosta Garnett on June 16, 2022

By Angelica "Lica" Acosta Garnett I was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. At age 17, after graduating from high school, I moved to the United States with my parents and two sisters. I left all of the people I had ever known, my culture, my traditions, my language and my home to move to this [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Immigration, Membership Tagged With: Abara, Advocacy, conference, el paso, immigration, member

Medicina on the Move

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on April 21, 2022

On Friday March 18, 2022, the CCDA Southwest Border Local Network, familia and community convened at the Tijuana-San Diego border to walk and talk through how God’s healing work has continually flowed even in the midst of a pandemic. The event's theme was, Rivers of Living Water: God's Healing Work [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Immigration, Local Network Tagged With: border, healing, immigration, local networks, regional conference, southwest border

Immigration Prayer Requests

by Christina Foor on June 1, 2021

Do you have a specific prayer request regarding immigration? Submit it here in the comments for us to pray for you at our virtual prayer meeting! [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Immigration

Immigrant Communities Teach A Lesson in Faith

by CCDA Guest on April 15, 2020

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 [...]
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Filed Under: Immigration Tagged With: City planning, Covid-19, economy, immigration, income, Kansas City, Mission Adelante

Building Bridges of Justice

by Christina Foor on April 15, 2020

SW Border conference

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 [...]
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Filed Under: Immigration Tagged With: Abara, border, bridge builder, conference, immigration, local network, migration, SW Border Conference, vote

Holding onto Hope

by CCDA Guest on December 9, 2019

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 [...]
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Filed Under: Devotionals, Immigration Tagged With: advent, devotional, hope, immigration, Mary, Nativity, sanctuary

Without Walls or Borders

by CCDA Guest on July 29, 2019

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 [...]
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Filed Under: Immigration, Justice Initiatives & Advocacy, Listening to the Community, Train and Connect Tagged With: Abara, border, Ciudad Nueva, el paso, InterVarsity

CCDA & Value Our Families Coalition

by CCDA Guest on July 24, 2019

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 [...]
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Filed Under: Immigration, Justice Initiatives & Advocacy, Listening to the Community Tagged With: Advocacy, immigration, refugee

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Reflecting on Monterey Park

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*Note: this piece was written before the violence that occurred in Half Moon Bay. We lament the [...]
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