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Awakening to Immigrant Injustice

9/3/2017 1 Comment

Welcome to Awakening...

Welcome to this journey of Awakening. The Awakening Series is a year-long journey of exploration and discernment during which all people are invited to learn about current justice issues. The series is mostly educational and is intended to create a deep understanding and compassion for the world’s most marginalized individuals. It encourages a critical examination of structural, historical, sociological, and theological obstacles to the establishment of equity, wholeness, and fulfillment of all people.
Listening and learning is a critical part of our spiritual lives as we seek to meet God in our world. Throughout the Bible, the people of God hear – and wrestle with – the call to love the foreigner and welcome the stranger (Deut. 10, Lev. 19, etc.). The United States is often referred to as a “Nation of Immigrants,” which not only honors our heritage but also reminds us that our ancestors were also foreigners in a new land.  
This year, we will explore this ancient, biblical call and discern how God might be calling us – individually and collectively – to love and welcome all of our neighbors. Through large group educational opportunities, small groups experiences, weekend events, and pilgrimages, we will get to know our immigrant neighbors, begin to understand the challenges they face in coming to the United States, and discern action and advocacy steps that we can take to create a better life with and for America’s newcomers.

 God be with us all along the way,   
Rev. Chrissy Tatum Williamson

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1 Comment
Gwen Cottrell link
8/25/2018 10:49:05 am

Thank you for the opportunity to travel with you to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA.
Immigration/refugees, etc., has been a deep concern for me over the years, but particularly the past couple of years. The trip has given me insight to many problems.
I came home and spent a day doing research to get more indeeoh information on the Stewart Detention Center.
It appears to me, that even after inspections, the situation remains insufficient and in humane.
FBC Decatur is launching a refocus on refugees in Clarkston, GA. We have some set goals to strive for, but hope to go beyond even those.
Thank you Myers Park Baptist Church. Let’s encourage one another as we continue our journies to become Jesus followers an all areas of our lives.
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you:Take your everyday, ordinary life — your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking—around life—- and place it before God as an offering.” Romans 12:1 Messages by Eugene Peterson

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