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Building Relationships and Understanding Across Borders
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The DouglaPrieta Community Garden has produced an abundant winter crop and the greenhouses are full of spring vegetable starts ready to be planted mid April. Click here to view photos.
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March 31, 2015
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31 de marzo, 2015
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We are grateful that God has called us to be apart of this ministry in which we are blessed to partner with folks on both sides of the border, from many different faith traditions, cultural backgrounds and political persuasions seeking to make the world a more peace-filled, just, and loving world reflecting God's intentions for the world.
We are grateful for your partnership in our ministry and continue to need your prayers, encouragement and support! Please consider supporting your ministry here on the border with a one time or recurring gift at our online donation site!
On behalf of your ministry on the border,
Jeni O'Callaghan Carmina Sanchez Monika Patience
President Secretary Treasurer
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Educating and Being Educated at a
Phoenix High School
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Daisy Hernandez, a teacher at Tolleson High School in Phoenix who had participated with FDC with a delegation from Hope College several years ago, invited Brenda Cuellar, the US Coordinator of the Migrant Resource Center, to share with her students about border and immigration issues. Brenda's participation helped open conversation, minds and hearts among the students and teacher about the reality of immigration.
Brenda writes: "Tears flowed from their eyes as they spoke about missing their family members who are in Mexico. One girl spoke about her upcoming Quinceañera (a traditional celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday) and her deep desire of wanting her grandparents to be present. She was so hopeful but also aware of the sad reality that they might not attend due to documentation."
Click here to read all of Brenda's reflections. Contact Brenda if you would like her to lead a conversation (in person or via SKYPE) with your school, Sunday School class, civic group etc. |
Christian Reformed Church Group Visits US/Mexico Border
article written by CRC Office of Social Justice
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 The Christian Reformed Church's Office of Social Justice led a group of 20 pastors and others to the Arizona- Mexico border from March 9-12 to expose them to issues of immigration that people on both sides of border are facing.
Kelsey Herbert, a Congregational Mobilizer Fellow for the Office of Social Justice, says a goal of the trip was to encourage a greater dialogue in churches about looking at immigration from a faith-based perspective.
"I was reminded of something we can so often forget, that all human beings-no matter their circumstances, job title, criminal record, political bent, or legal status-are images bearers and beloved of God. Until we see the migrant in this way, we cannot expect our policy making to be kingdom-minded," said Jordan Humm, a first-year divinity student at Calvin Seminary.
Participants came from California, Iowa, New Jersey, and Michigan. The trip included four members of the Reformed Church in America as well.
To read full article click here. To view more photos taken by Christy Berghoef for click here.
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Hospitality: Opening Our Arms, Extending Friendship
excerpt from keynote sermon of Joca Gallegos, Mexican Coordinator of FDC, at the regional youth gathering at the Voz del Desierto Presbyterian Church in Hermosillo.
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 I think sometimes for us today with so many situations that happen around us, it is easy to forget the hospitality is much easier to build walls, physical walls and invisible. They can be because do not know the other, because I'm scared out of myself, or because I have too many prejudices. The sad thing is these walls that keep me from having a relationship, that is, I lock myself and limit my act in life.
The Frontera de Cristo Ministry has taught me over the years, this part of life, extending arms to others is to strengthen friendship, is to live with migrants, is to see women who seek a better future for themselves and their families is to see children grow and develop in a healthy environment is recognized as being free of drugs and alcohol give new meaning to the lives of people, is to live and share the Kingdom of God in the life of the community, receiving a group that comes to understand the reality of our border, is tirelessly preaching the wonders that God has for each of us, is this and much more.
Click here to read full article in Spanish and English!
More Photos from event!
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Presbyterian Border Region Outreach Hosts National Council of Church Leaders on US/Mexico Border
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 The Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, the Reverend Gradye Parsons, and members of the Office of the General Assembly and World Mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were honored in February to spend a day with our ecumenical partners from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC) and international partners from the Waldensian Church of Italy addressing issues of migration and border policy in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The NCC lends their collective voice to issues of migration and wrote a powerful statement just this summer addressing our country's treatment of families and children fleeing Central America. Click here to read full article. | |
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Migrant Stations of the Cross
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Taste of Chiapas
First Presbyterian Church Silver City, NM hosted a Taste of Chiapas February 28 for its members and other
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churches in the area interested in becoming Café Justo partners.
The day included a coffee tasting, informational tables, video messages from Café Justo farmers, employees and partners sharing what Café Justo means to them, and a conversation with Adrian Gonzalez about the impact of Café Justo.
The church is Café Justo's "highest per capita" church partner-- "a small church with a huge impact"! Over its 11 year partnership, it has bought $29,715 worth of coffee (3,495 pounds of coffee).
If your church or organization would like to host a taste of Chiapas, contact mark@fronteradecristo.org.
To see pictures of the event click here.
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November 6-14, 2015
Coffee, Migration and Faith
Border to Border Delegation
7 Spaces Left
REGISTER NOW
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Join us in building relationships and understanding across borders enjoying great coffee, wonderful fellowship, delicious food, and incredible hospitality in the rainforest in 2015!
We will probably reach the maximum number early this year so we are in the planning stages of adding a delegation in late September early October, We will announce the date in the March e-letter.
Click here to see the visual story of the 2014 Delegation. The initial information packet and registration form will be sent out on Friday February 5.
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Muchas Gracias
to all the delegations who shared life and ministry with us in February!!
Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church
Tucson, AZ
Young Adults in Global Mission of the Lutheran Church
Mennonite Peace and Justice Network
First Presbyterian Church Farmington, NM
Christian Peacemaker Team Delegation
Lexington Theological Seminary
Support
Frontera de Cristo by:
1) Joining us in giving thanks to God for:
--the blessing of our call to witness that Jesus Christ is our peace across the borders that seek to divide us;
--for the former board members and staff who have already joined the great cloud of witnesses:
Don Eckhardt
Amelia del Pozo
Betty Mae Seel
Cecilia Castellanos
Bertha Miramontes
Margi Buehler
2) Praying with us for God's guidance and help in:
--Discerning where God is leading us as we seek a new Mexican Coordinator;
--Responding to the reality of the impact of drugs on the families and communities of Agua Prieta;
3) Providing Support to the Migrant Resource Center:
-The MRC invites YOU to visit or volunteer. Come, learn, and be blessed by our brother and sister migrants.
-MRC Donation needs:
-Shoelaces
-Men's clothing
-Warm clothing (Winter is coming! Jackets, gloves, hats, etc.)
-MRC Volunteers commute by bike-but we need helmets and bike lights! Please consider donating to help keep us safe on
the roads.
-Financial donations will help pay MRC operating costs, but food items when donations are scarce and keep our bicycles in operating condition.
3) Donating by clicking the donate now button.
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