Support Asylum Seekers This #GivingTuesday
This Giving Tuesday, we hope you will make a gift to support the work RGBM is doing to build community at our southern border. This special Giving Tuesday Borderland Update from The Rev. Canon Lee Curtis comes directly from one of RGBM’s sister shelters run by Padre Héctor Trejo in Ciudad Juarez. If you believe in a community and a place like this, if you believe in the work of the Gospel being lived out among people who are in desperate situations and turning those desperate situations into togetherness, then please consider giving to RGBM. We will make sure that your donation gets to work.
This Giving Tuesday, we hope you will also consider getting your parish involved as a partner of RGBM. We look forward to walking alongside you as you discern your call to welcome the stranger and support the work of RGBM. To learn more, connect with our project coordinator Nellie Fagan and download the discernment package and sample covenant. Learn more about parish partnerships below.
A Prayer for RGBM
O God, Creator of all people,
help us to travel through the barren borderlands
that separate us from others.
Teach us to willingly explore relationships with people
as we offer a compassionate response to those who cross our paths around our borders.
Open our hearts to new companion’s needs so that
everyone eats,
everyone is clothed,
everyone has a safe and healthy habitat and
everyone knows they are loved by You, O Lord,
through our actions and struggles for justice and peace.
Grant us the vision to notice how each step we take together
moves us closer to the promised land
where all souls grow in hope and love.
Let us go forth this day
In harmony with You,
Compassion in our hearts
Gratitude in our thoughts
Generosity in our deeds
Justice as our passion
Let us go forth
carrying God’s image
Into our hurting world along our border
With the Rio Grande Borderland Ministries.
AMEN+