IMPACT STORIES
What started as a 2,000-mile photographic border journey, is now a mobilization movement helping people of faith engage the border and immigration conversation from a biblical perspective. Scroll below to read stories from service-learning trip participants and ministry leaders about how border trips and the peacemaking work of the local church in South Texas has impacted their lives and for some, it’s brought about behavioral change to the way they live their lives.
IMPACT BEYOND THE BORDER
Amy Goorman shares the impact of learning about the border and immigration from a biblical perspective and how being a part of two border journeys along the South Texas border has impacted her life.
Cara Iwasaki, Pastor at Overlake Christian Church shares about her border experience. Cara shares how the Hispanic and immigrant church in South Texas is active in responding to the spiritual and physical needs of vulnerable families on and beyond the border and how this experience has it’s impacted her life.
Josh and Annie Blay share about the impact of learning more about the border and immigration from a biblical perspective and how service-learning trips along the South Texas border have impacted and changed their life.
“We serve a God who loves the foreigner and sojourner, and we, as His followers, are called to do the very same.”
LOVE THE FOREIGNER. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
— Mackenzie Elliott