Faith and Immigration Justice
8-Week Series
Tuesdays, March 11 to April 29, 2025
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Just Faith Social Justice Ministry at Holy Family invites you to join us in an 8-week Just Faith Ministries program “Faith and Immigration Justice.”
In the safety of community, and with the help of resources from a variety of perspectives, our small group will explore misconceptions and truths around immigration, as well as discern how our Christian faith calls us to respond. Our group will hear and read the stories of immigrants, explore current topics such as family separations, DACA, TPS, and border security. Regardless of whether you consider yourself “conservative” or “progressive,” Catholic or Protestant, or if you don’t fit neatly into any of these categories, we hope that all group members will feel welcome in this program.
The program will run Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 pm, beginning March 11 through April 29, 2025, at Holy Family.
PROGRAM GOALS
Faith and Immigration Justice equips participants to advocate for immigration policies that are just, effective, and compassionate, and to lead their communities in extending hospitality toward their immigrant neighbors.
This program seeks to help participants:
Discern how our faith calls us to respond to the immigration debate happening in our nation.
Explore the reasons why people choose to come to the United States.
Learn about basic immigration policy: participants learn how to answer the question “why don’t undocumented immigrants just get in line’ for citizenship?”
Equip participants and groups to advocate for just, compassionate, and effective immigration policy.
Equip participants to welcome their immigrant neighbors within their own local communities.
Sessions include:
Prayer and Reflection
Discussion and Reading
Faith Integration
Videos and Group Activities
Spiritual Practice
Guest Speaker
Books
The Line Becomes a River
by Francisco Cantú
Welcoming the Stranger
by Matthew Soerens & Jenny Hwang
“We as a group were called to act on our faith as a result of taking Just Faith Ministries’ program on migration. All in our group feel empowered and competent to speak the truths and facts of our immigrant neighbors to others in our community” - Mary D., Participant
To register or for additional information, please contact Andrea Melanson at 860-614-8280 or ammelanson@aol.com or Lisa Muscanell-DePaola at lmuscanell@gmail.com.