Recently Curated Resources
Planning & Preparedness Resources
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Know Your Rights
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Know Your Rights
What to do if your loved one is detained
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Immigrant Legal Resource Center
· This toolkit is aimed at providing an advocate with tools to stand in solidarity with the immigrant community by being a conduit of valuable Know Your Rights information.
Websites
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
G92 Student Movement
Evangelical Immigration Table
LMDJ Immersive Experience
A Migrant Journey: Scripture’s Call to Welcome the Stranger Immigration Immersive Discipleship Experience at the southern Tijuana/San Diego U.S. border
Immigrant stories in the Covenant
· Tim Hawkinson, Renew Covenant Church, Carroll, Iowa. Historical and theological perspective of pioneering Swedish immigrants chartering what would become the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Sneha Augusthy tells the immigration story of she and her mother from India and how that story is weaved through several Covenant churches
Phil Anderson (retired North Park Theological Seminary professor) and Danny Martinez (Central Conference Superintendent), LovtheCov podcast episode
·”Grateful for the Journey from Dreamer to Advocate”
Milly Silencio, licensed Covenant clergy
How a church stewarded what it was entrusted with to create a welcoming space for refugees
Suggested books for further education
· Soerens, Matthew, and Jenny Hwang Yang. Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2018
· González, Karen. The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong. Harvey, ND: Herald Press, 2019
· Wu, Cindy. A Better Country: Embracing the Refugees in Our Midst. Littleton, CO: William Carey Library Pub, 2022
· González, Karen. Beyond Welcome: Centering Immigrants in Our Christian Response to Immigration
· Carroll R., Daniel. Christians at the Border: Immigration, The Church & The Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2013
· Hanson Bourke, Dale. Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014
Digital resources for further study
· Sojourners in a Strange Land: Looking to the Bible to inform our conversation about immigration. Reprinted from the Covenant Companion.
· Evangelical Views on Immigration (A study sponsored by the Evangelical Immigration Table and World Relief)
Video resources
Podcast resources
Liturgical congregational resources
“Litany for Dreamers”
Make an impact today
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