Big Bend Borderland Update from Rev. Mike Wallens

Big Bend Borderland Update from Rev. Mike Wallens

The Rev. Michael Wallens, Vicar, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Marfa, TX

This week’s borderland update comes from The Rev. Michael Wallens, Vicar of St. Paul’s in Marfa. Mike supports the work RGBM is doing in the Big Bend region of our borderlands.

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RGBM Cycle of Prayer

This week the administration released the first report of its new

Reunification of Families Task Force. We are thankful for

the 1,786 families who have been reunited and pray for the 2,127

children who have no record of being reunited with their families

since separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the previous

administration. Please pray for the work of the task force that is

committed to helping these families rebuild their lives.

 

We are praying for the organizations in Texas that are extending

Christlike welcome to migrant children in their care. Please

contact your lawmakers in Texas regarding the order Gov. Abbott

signed that will revoke childcare licenses from Texas-based non-

profit organizations that are currently partnering with the federal

government to provide care and housing for unaccompanied

migrant children. We pray your voices will be heard and that this

decision would be overturned.

 

As we pray for the migrants at our border and in our immigration

system, we want to continue to pray for the home countries that

they felt they needed to leave behind. We long to see the root

causes of migration addressed. We pray for solutions to the

violence, poverty, and corruption that cause so many to make the

dangerous trek to the U.S. 

It is amazing that God allows us to be part of the good things he is

doing around the world. How will you love your neighbor this

week? What step can you take to show love to someone that

might feel like an outsider, forgotten, or cast aside?

Send prayer requests for the bi-weekly RGBM Cycle of Prayer to admin@riograndeborderland.org.