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Border Ministry Resources

ADVOCACY GROUPS

Border Action Network
Group formed in 1999 to protect human rights, civil rights, and Sonoran desert on the Arizona-Mexico border

International Relations Center, IRC Americas Program

List of select border related websites on many diverse issues

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS

Borderlinks
Travel seminars focusing on issues of US/Mexico border communities; faith-based binational education program based in Tucson, AZ

Cristo Rey Border Immersions
Border immersions in El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico, sister cities on the Rio Grande

ELCA Immersion Program
Lutheran Center, Mexico City

ELCA Message on Immigration
adopted by ELCA Church Council in 1998

Humane Borders

Provides water stations on and near border, founded by Rev. Robin Hoover, Tucson

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

FEDERAL AGENCIES

Department of Homeland Security
See “Immigration and Borders”

US Customs and Border Protection
See “border security”

 

 


                                           Candy Mayer, El Paso artist


Resource for Lent

Accompaniment Faith Stories

Faith Stories Discussion Guide

Companion Synods Sunday

Prayers and Ideas
for a congregational Companion Synods Sunday.

Three Brochures (.pdf files)

Introduction to our Companion Synods
Seeds of Hope: Campaign for Gifts
Manna for Madagascar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

Rocky Mountain Synod, ELCA
455 Sherman Street, Suite 160 + Denver, Colorado 80203 + phone 303.777.6700 or 1.800.525.0462 + fax 303.733.0750
rmsynod@rmselca.org + map and directions