Follow these easy steps to begin your peacemaking journey

 
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APPLY FOR A RESIDENCY

Move from awareness to action.

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SERVE CROSS-CULTURALLY

Discover prayer, peacemaking and justice as a lifestyle.

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MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT

Consider your whole life as ministry.

 
 
 
 

explore God’s love for people & HEART for justice

Our 11 week - 11 month, peacemaking residency program is intentionally designed to help develop ministry readiness, leadership skills, discipleship values, cross-cultural agility, and spiritual depth. During your border residency, you’ll learn directly from immigrant leaders and partner together with ministries currently serving border communities. Our residencies are designed to provide you with opportunities for hands‑on ministry experience in a cross-cultural setting, all while preparing you for long-term ministry.

 
 
 
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Our residency program prepares young adults for a lifetime of cross-cultural ministry.

 
 

Our Peacemaking residency is two-fold

Throughout the residency you’ll have the opportunity to serve alongside our partner ministries while growing and gaining personal ministry experience.

 
 

WHO CAN APPLY?

Our residency program is particularly designed for young adults with a desire to serve in long-term ministry, whether you see yourself serving overseas or living missionally where you live. This experience is an opportunity to dive into a lifestyle of ministry, learning from and being coached by our local leadership team.

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There are many ways to use your ministry PaSSION & calling!

Our residency program helps you gain ministry experience, all while living and serving cross-culturally.

 
 

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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KIDS

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Our Residency program takes place year-round.

Using a mixture of ministry tools, resources and one-on-one coaching, residents will be led through topics like cultural awareness, self-leadership, spiritual disciplines, identity, self-awareness and values in mission. All in effort to better equip you to serve in full time ministry at home or abroad.

*There is a required pre-field & in-field training.

 
 

Now accepting applications!

Fill out an inquiry form to find the opportunity that best fits you or begin your border residency by submitting an application today!

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BORDER VISUALS

Our team is in Chicago at the @evang4justice conference. We are putting on a photo gallery exhibit about our work on the border! Love being here with so many people who deeply care about issues that need to matter to the church. We are loving all the conversations and how many are learning more about the realities of ministry on the border! #liberatingevangelicalism
Are you are looking for a glimpse of hope through the polarized chaos of our current political moment? We highly recommend There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration by @alinoorani. Noorani is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. In his book, Noorani highlights conversations with many people of various backgrounds and ideologies, who are constructively working in their communities to create environments where both locals & immigrants can prosper. Another great book recommendation by @jessieudall! ❤️
Our local team is currently going to places no one else is reaching. We are continuously meeting physical needs and sharing the hope of Christ with people who are outcasts and very often overlooked by society. This weekend our team is visiting an immigrant shelter on the Mexican side of the border, in a region that’s controlled and run by drug cartels. There are currently between 800-1,000 people that need a glimpse of hope and encouragement as they continue waiting. We can’t do this work without you, please continue to support our ongoing initiatives and courageously pray for our team in the front lines. ♥️ 🙏🏼
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
We are so thankful for your support towards our ministry initiatives! This last week alone our team put in 360+ volunteer hours meeting some of the most basic needs of families’ at the humanitarian center in McAllen, Texas. In partnership with @theimmigrationcoalition, we were also able to deliver close to 400 Welcome Kits. We also donated clothes, socks, shoes, blankets, coloring books, and children’s booklets filled with fun activities interwoven with the story and the hope of Jesus. Since April of this year, we’ve been able to share about 3,000 Welcome Kits with families in need. We are so thankful for all of your support in our ongoing initiatives to support immigrant families at the South Texas border. We couldn’t do this work without you. We appreciate you so much! ♥️
We had the opportunity to hear directly from Sister Norma, Executive Director of Catholic Charities and founder of the respite center in McAllen, Texas. She talked with us about the importance of reassuring immigrant’s human dignity and that the humanitarian center is a place for practicality, not politics. Putting our faith into action is what this trip was all about! So thankful for this team. 🙌🏼
Our team has been volunteering at the Catholic Charities Respite Center in McAllen, Texas this week. Yesterday there was about 800 asylum seekers at the center. It’s another typical day since the center sees about 800-1,200 people a day. At the center, asylum seekers get clean clothes, food and are able to connect with their family or loved one to continue their trip across the USA. Our team has been walking people to the nearby bus station, driving families to the airport, helping in the kitchen, sorting donations and giving out hygiene items that meet family’s basic needs.
We did a lot of driving along the South Texas and Mexico border yesterday. It was a time to try and understand the complexity and the need across the border region.
Our first stop is in Roma, Texas. Miguel Alemán is the Mexican town across the Rio Grande. On our drive we’ve been learning about the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) surveillance that is used along the border for security purposes.
A group of students from Minneapolis,MN are joining us this week for a service learning trip along the US & Mexico border. Stay tuned for updates on our trip!
Over the last several months, a surge of Central American migrants has overwhelmed Border Patrol detention centers in South Texas. This influx of migrants and asylum seekers pushed detention centers along the border beyond capacity, forcing officials to release individuals at a much higher rate than usual. With the overwhelming amount of immigrants currently in transition, the need on the border is bigger than any one church and/or organization can sustain. This wave of arrivals and the resulting lack of shelter has created what U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan called a “breaking point” on the border. With the overwhelming amount of immigrants currently in transition, the need on the border is bigger than any organization can sustain. Many families haven’t had access to showers or basic hygiene items. Others have gone days without food and water. The needs migrants face today are twofold. Families need prayer, and they also need access to hygiene kits, food, and clean water. We are partnering with @theimmigrationcoalition to continue our Welcome Kits Campaign. Our Welcome Kits help meet the some of the greatest needs currently at refuge centers. Each $15 kit provides basic hygiene items—wet wipes, first aid items, shampoo—and a Bible for immigrant families. We invite you to stand with us by offering holistic hope to vulnerable families on our border.
We just finished a 3 day border trip with the @liberatusdc team. They will be sharing about our #borderjourney experience and many other stories on how the Peace of Christ can remake politics in their upcoming print journal! One thing that stood out during this trip was our mutual vision and passion to move the conversation forward and continue to advocate for a more balanced perspective on the issues affecting border communities, immigrants who are already here and the many more who are currently in transition seeking legal asylum. Thanks for a great trip @cpaxt041, @an_emmajune & @ana_stasiaaa! #beapeacemaker
In her new book, The God Who Sees, author @_karenjgonzalez strikes parallels between the stories of immigrants in the Bible and the story of immigrants today. She brings to life these ancient stories in new ways and she also adds a weightiness to the lives of modern-day immigrants when we imagine heroes of the faith being among them. We highly recomend Karen's new book! 🎉 Check out our blog, it's a must read! 📖
BORDER JOURNEY REFLECTION — I had the privilege to learn and serve on the US/Mexico border with @borderperspective and @experiencemission and it has rocked my world. Regardless of your political stance on Immigration and border security, you cannot turn a blind eye to human need at this magnitude. Hundreds of asylum-seekers are welcomed in each day (with valid cases of extreme danger at home), often empty-handed carrying nothing but their children and are met by a handful (sometimes less than 10) of volunteers working to clothe, feed, shelter, and provide transportation for these human beings to continue on their journey to destinations across the US. It’s so, so hard to process all that I’ve seen in such a short time, but I’m overcome by the gaps that I’ve seen and experienced in resources and volunteers stepping up to welcome these neighbors. The situation is far more urgent than I imagined and as a Church, we need to get to work. @abbiethiebaut was recently a part of our #borderjourney along the south Texas & northern Mexico border.

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