How have immigrant services, communities been impacted by policy change?
By Jesse N. Love with the Rev. Lyda Pierce
Additional Photos by Wikipedia and Nica Sy
Tacoma, Wash. - “Tak?” “Nie?” Amy Diehr, Education Services manager...
Church seeks to meet needs in border crisis
A UMNS report by Sam Hodges | July 15, 2014 | DALLAS (UMNS)
From handing out hygiene kits to providing legal briefings, United Methodists are working to...
Immigration Crisis along the Border: UMCOR’s response
Brief by Denise Honeycutt, Deputy General Secretary of the United Methodist Committee on Relief
The current immigration crisis involving adults, accompanied minors, and unaccompanied minors...
Lost Boy finds help at Justice for Our Neighbors
The United Methodist program Justice For our Neighbors (JFON) is an advocacy and support group that provides legal help for immigrants and refugees. Church...
Wallingford UMC: Opening Borders to the Spirit
The Rev. Ann Berney walks along the border wall between El Paso and Juárez. A team from Seattle: Wallingford United Methodist Church visited this...
United Methodist Women and Others to Rally for Closing of Family Detention Center
United Methodist Women local members from Austin, Houston and Brownsville will join a coalition of partners — the ACLU, Detention Watch Network (DWN) and...
Social-justice agency skeptical of Obama ‘actions’ on unaccompanied children, immigration
Please read and share this press release on President Obama's recently announced plans concerning the deportation of unaccompanied children. Church World Service has also published...
Pro-Immigrant Churches to Turn Over Tables in front of Tukwila I.C.E. headquarters
Immigrant voices will be at the center of the Table Turning action planned for Monday, March 26th in front of the in front of I.C.E. headquarters in Tukwila, Wash. The action, sponsored locally by Valley and Mountain, will include a ceremonial re-enactment of the “Revolutionary Jesus” turning over the tables of the money changers.
A reflection on exclusion and language by Paul Jeffrey
By the Rev. Paul Jeffrey
Some ten million people in the world today are stateless. They aren’t recognized as citizens of any nation. Without legal...
Video: Get to know a Dreamer
Jose Enrique Hernandez is a member of Dios Viviente United Methodist Church in Seattle and a 'Dreamer.' In this video, Jose reflects on what the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program means for him and his friends and family.
