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Working with RGBM is not JUST about fixing buildings and cooking meals. It is about presence.

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Pilgrimages to the Borderlands provide an up-close experience of how migrants and asylum seekers encounter the border between the US and Mexico. Pilgrims welcome and serve families as they enter the shelter. They meet officials and community leaders who serve the borderlands along the New Mexico, Texas Big Bend and the sister cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.

SERVE

For a day or a week, your volunteer time is gratefully welcomed. You may serve on “shelter day”, the day we welcome groups needing a place to rest, regroup and make travel plans. Your help may include preparing meals, assisting with travel arrangements or simply being a welcoming presence. We also need help outside of shelter day to organize and maintain the space. Any form of service is met with deep gratitude.

Grow

Parish partnerships create bonds of support and prayer with parishes and communities around the country. Partners commit to working to provide borderland education, support advocacy initiatives, and lead fundraising efforts in local communities. Learn more below.

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Introducing: RGBM Parish PArtnerships

**Click here to download on parish partnership discernment materials!**

RGBM partner parishes/organizations commit to working in collaboration with the RGBM leadership team to provide borderland education, support advocacy initiatives, and lead fundraising efforts in local communities.

In partnering with RGBM, parishes will make 3 commitments: Stewardship, Prayer, and Time

All partners will have the same opportunities and communications regardless of the level they pledge to give. We hope that parishes will discern what they are able to commit to. We are grateful for any level of support in prayer, stewardship, and time.

Interested in learning more about partnering with RGBM? Reach out to our development coordinator, Nellie Fagan, at admin@riograndeborderland.org.

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Would you like to come join our team? Bring your family, your school or church group and experience the privilege of being a part of Borderland Ministries.

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"It was by the Spirit that I arrived in El Paso a year and six months ago and that I came to know the work of the Diocese of the Rio Grande through the Reverend Cristina Rathbone. And in these challenging months, it is the Spirit that continues

With the hope of raising awareness and building our network of supporters, RGBM will be hosting a virtual community art event on May 1st titled Canvas of Hope. The event will feature artists passionate about migration, including musical performances,

LINK TO ARTICLE IN BIO "The Biden administration has said it will start processing people who have been waiting under 'Remain in Mexico' on Friday, beginning with those who have been waiting the longest and those who are deemed most vulnerable.

LINK TO ARTICLE IN BIO “The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States while their cases proceed. The f

LINK TO ARTICLE IN BIO “There is a real concern for frostbite, hyperthermia. With people anticipating that Friday is going to open to MPP crossings, people don’t want to move to a shelter with a roof. They are afraid they will lose their

"We are hopeful. And we continue to be hopeful. For some of us, sometimes hope is all we have. We live in these beautiful, vibrant border communities that have been over-militarized for years. We continue to look at immigration and people on the

RGBM is co-hosting a second session of the Sin Fronteras Book Study with the Diocese of Arizona! We will move through the book Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Supremacy, by Cristina Beltran. The book study is led by The R

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We invite people to become a part of our work not ONLY to make a tangible impact, but to experience for yourself the importance of simply showing up and being present for the most vulnerable.