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You may think I write too much about (im)migration. Fair enough – my wife agrees with you. And I admit there are other important topics to write about in the context of our mission work. However, if you remove migration from the conversation about the mission of God, you remove the divine means by which…

Reading through the Old Testament it’s hard not to notice the prophet’s fiery rhetoric over Israel’s covenent unfaithfulness. Amos and Micah were not alone in voicing God’s displeasure and rebuke for Israel’s infidelity which included neglect of justice for the poor and powerless.  Though often hopeful and framed with God’s gracious mercy, OT prophecy ends…

It is no secret that I am pro-immigration. My views are rooted in consistent testimony of Scripture regarding how the people of God are to treat the less fortunate, which includes the foreigner, the poor, and the oppressed. This describes the great majority of immigrants. However, I sometimes fear that the virtue of my cause…

Hispanic pastor and professor Robert Chao Romero writes about “migration as grace” to both the immigrant and the host country and community.  It is easy to understand God’s grace to immigrants who can escape war, famine,  religious or political persecution and arrive in a host country to start a new life. But what about migration…

I fondly recall a mission leader in our organization who liked to refer to people as “glory-bearers.” It was his way of expressing the foundational truth of Genesis 1:27: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.” This “imago Dei” and implied…

Tony Weedor died suddenly on March 16th at age 63. Tony was immigrant and a refugee from Liberia. And he was so much more. I did not know Tony well. I wish I’d known him better. His sudden death while speaking at the small “Family Conference” for the Multination African congregation two weeks ago, was…