Margarita Silva-Potts’ Volunteer Testimony

Margarita Silva-Potts’ Volunteer Testimony


Hear about RGBM Volunteer Margarita Silva-Potts’ experience visiting and playing with the children in the shelters in Juarez. Thank you to Margarita and all of our volunteers for your unwavering support of Rio Grande Borderland Ministries. The Lord continues to use our volunteers in might ways, and for that we are truly grateful.


DONATE TO RGBM TODAY

Your generosity today will be matched up to $5,500 thanks to the Immigration Ministry at St. Michael’s & All Angels Church. This matching fund was originally received when asylum seekers were streaming over the border and bused to Albuquerque, but so many circumstances have changed over the last year. In line with donor intent to provide direct support to the most vulnerable, and at the recommendation of the Borderland Ministries, St. Michael's would like to support the Anglican shelters in Juárez which are now used for quarantining migrants deported from US detention. Your gift to RGBM today will be matched up to this amount! Donate here, and to learn more about the St. Michael’s Immigration Ministry, visit their website by clicking the button below.


Sin Fronteras Reading Group, Co-led by Padre David Ulloa Chavez, Missioner for Border Ministries for the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona and The Rev. Mike Wallens, Co-Chair of RGBM

Over the course of six weeks, we will read, reflect, and pray for the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the US/Mexico border. Our primary text will be Miguel de la Torre’s book The Immigration Crisis: Towards an Ethics of Place. The reading group will begin meeting TODAY on October 28th. Below is the Zoom information for the Sin Fronteras Reading Group. To learn more about the reading schedule, please see the full lesson plan here. Questions? Email David at david@azdiocese.org or Mike at michaelwallens@gmail.com 

Episcopal Diocese of Arizona is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

 Topic: Without Borders Reading Group

Time: Every 2 weeks on Wed, 7 occurrence(s)

Oct 28, 2020 02:30 PM - (Mountain Standard)
Nov 11, 2020 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)
Nov 25, 2020 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)
Dec 9, 2020 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)
Jan 6, 2021 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)
Jan 20, 2021 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)
Feb 3, 2021 02:30 PM- (Mountain Standard)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84481427404?pwd=ODI1RDBydmVWUGpkblpWY1JrUG8wQT09

Meeting ID: 844 8142 7404
Passcode: borders


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The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego Presents: The Border Ministries Summit 2020 November 20-21, 2020

Join us for the Virtual Border Ministries Summit 2020 and hear from those at the center of the immigrant community in San Diego. Our focus will be on Christian Peacemaking in a World of Conflict. Learn from undocumented people, deportees, first generation immigrants and Christian leaders who live in Tijuana and San Diego. We will hear from Episcopal / Anglican Bishops and other leaders on both sides of the border, as well as from the Border Patrol and legal experts. We will not only learn about immigration but will be equipped with tangible Christian Peacemaking practices to live out in our own contexts as Everyday Peacemakers. The pain is real and the opportunity for transformation and healing is as well.  This is the Third Annual Border Summit, designed for Episcopal and other Christian leaders wanting more information about the US-Mexico border, and for those who want to learn the basics of becoming Christian Peacemakers in this time of deep division. To learn more about The Border Ministries Summit 2020 and register for the event, please visit borderministries.com.


A Prayer in Times of Violence

Thank you to Allison Duvall, Manager for Church Relations and Engagement at Episcopal Migration Ministries, for sharing this prayer in the most recent EMM newsletter. It comes from  Padraig O’Tuama, the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization.


A prayer in times of violence

God of all humanity,
in times of violence
we see how inhuman we can be.
 

We pray for those who, today, are weighed down by grief.

We pray for those who, yesterday, were weighed down by grief.
 

And the day before,
and all the days before the day before.

We pray, too, for those who help us turn towards justice and peace.

Turn us all towards justice and peace because we need it. 

Amen.