Please join us for this workshop which will focus on ways that individuals and congregations in the Lehigh Valley can become allies with refugees and other immigrants in our local communities. We welcome people of all faiths who want their congregations to take action and leadership in assisting vulnerable members of their community.

• Program:

  9:30 am

  Registration, resources, coffee/tea & conversation, light brunch

  10:00 am

  • Welcome, Devotions - Rev. John Lamb • What do our faith traditions have to say about our relationship with uprooted people - Rev. Dr. Larry Pickens • What does it mean to be an immigrant ally? - conversations with recent immigrants • Panel Discussion:       Public Action and Direct Support for and with Local Immigrants Erika Sutherland, Grupo de Apoyo e Integración Hispanoamericano Ashleigh Strange, Make the Road PA Oscar Barbosa, immigration attorney • Immigration Policy and Legislative Action

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• This event is free, but pre-registration is requested, and donations will be accepted. Please pre-register here.
  (Program details are subject to change - look for updates here.)

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• Sponsored by the Justice and Advocacy Committee of The Lehigh Conference of Churches,
  Grupo de Apoyo e Integración Hispanoamericano, and St. Luke's Lutheran Church.

Immigration and Sanctuary Resources

Biblical Foundations

• Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice, by Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell (Orbis, 2012).
• Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible M. Daniel Carroll R., (Baker Pub., 2nd Edition, 2013)
• M. Daniel Carroll Rodas: blog, videos, resources on hispanic immigration from a Biblical perspective.

Immigrant Sanctuary - Resources and Toolkits

• Immigration Toolkits (Presbyterian Church USA) - These kits focus on five topics: Detention, Refugee Resettlement, State Immigration Legislation, the DREAM Act, and Comprehensive immigration Reform.
• Immigration Toolkits (Interfaith Immigration Coalition)
  
• Sanctuary in the Streets Guide
• Raid Response Guidelines
• Sanctuary Cities and Municipal ID Cards
• Sanctuary Toolkit (PDF)
• Sanctuary Toolkit (DOCX)
• Immigration Enforcement and Sanctuary (Peace & Justice News, June 2017) - overview of U.S. deportation policy and sanctuary
• Are You in Need of Sanctuary
• Sanctuary Pledge
• DHS Memorandum - Summary and Analysis (AILA, Feb. 20, 2017) Summary of revised immigration policies under the Trump administration. Note that some provisions of DAPA (Delayed Action for Parental Accountability) were overruled by federal court action in 2016.

Immigration - Video and Group Study Resources

• Radical Hospitality: Responding to the Issue of Immigration (Mennonite Church USA)- 6-week study, beginning with Biblical foundation. Uses on-line video clips for 5 of the 6 sessions.
• MCC Washington office: Immigration Videos.
• Colorado Council of Churches: "Who Is My Neighbor? A Faith Discussion on Immigration" - Sunday School DVD curriculum.
• Presbyterian Church USA: "Locked in a Box - Immigration Detention"
• Christian Churches Together: Immigration Resources, includes several videos.
• AFSC resources on U.S.-Mexico border militarization (includes short video).
• AFSC on Sanctuary: Sanctuary Everywhere (includes short video).
• "Undocumented and Awkward" is the title of a series of you-tube video clips that explore the reality of daily life for undocumented youth and young adults, produced by a creative arts project known as Dreamers Adrift.
• A World Uprooted: Responding to Migrants, Refugees and Displaced People (Ecumenical Advocacy Days) - keynote presentations, April 20-22, 2018.

Other Immigration Resources

• For still more immigration-related resources, see ppjr.org/issues/immigration/resource.htm - an extensive categorized resource list, but not kept up to date.