Immigration Immersion

A Migrant Journey: Scripture's Call to Welcome the Stranger

SAN DIEGO/ TIJUANA
August 9-12, 2024

Love Mercy Do Justice is partnering with Journey Home to offer an immersive immigration discipleship experience that:

  • Compels us to biblically ground the conversation around immigration.
  • Allows us to go beyond what we hear and see in the news, to experience firsthand what is happening at the southern border.
  • Humanizes the immigration debate, moving us from political polarities to theological discernment concerning scripture's consistent commission to welcome the stranger.
  • Equips us to creatively function as everyday peacemakers within our local context, and empowers us to begin seeing conflict as an opportunity for transformation.

Trip details:

  • The Immigration Immersion will take place August 9 - August 12, 2024.
  • This immersive discipleship experience is a binational experience that will take place in San Diego and Tijuana.
  • Participants must have a valid passport to participate.
  • Participants who are flying in to participate should fly in and out of the San Diego Airport (SAN).

 The cost of the trip includes:

  • Curated pre and post-trip resources
  • Three nights of accommodations
  • Meals, snacks, and water throughout
  • Transportation to and from the airport (Please note: Transportation will make one airport pick up and drop off trip to and from the San Diego hotel. To take advantage of this free ride, you must coordinate your travel schedule around the van shuttle. We will send shuttle times out to you upon completion of your registration.)

Email [email protected] with further questions.

“The immigration immersion experience is an exceptional discipleship experience geared to help understand the plight of our immigrant brothers and sisters. We heard heartbreaking stories from moms who were separated from their young children for years. We listened to a veteran who fought in our military and was later deported. We visited a detention center that was nothing more than a private prison for people whose “crime” was to flee the violence and chaos of their home country. We worshiped at the border with brothers and sisters in a common worship service united by the Holy Spirit of God but divided by metal slats made by human hands. The heart of God beats strongly in our brothers and sisters who have experienced loss, violence, and the ripping apart of families.”

Tammy Swanson-Draheim
President, Evangelical Covenant Church

“The crisis at the US/Mexico border threatened to paralyze me with hopelessness and grief. By bringing me face to face with people who are confronting the situation, God used this immersive discipleship experience to give me a fresh shot of vision and hope. The insights garnered here have broad applications for discipleship, including how to care for communities in need and how to engage passionate differences of opinion. Time spent with migrants, deportees, border patrol agents, ICE agents, church leaders, and community organizers gave me opportunities to see Jesus at work. If you are wondering how to faithfully engage this human crisis with compassion or simply looking for tools to engage a divided world with restorative love, I recommend this experience for you and your team.”

Joel Sommer
Senior Pastor, Access Covenant Church, Portland, Oregon

“This was such a life-affirming opportunity! We learned from leaders on the margins who taught us how to love well and faithfully advocate for our neighbors existing in the shadows. We were challenged to immerse ourselves in people’s life journeys—from recently deported US military veterans to DACA recipients who have seen their families torn apart, to Border Patrol agents, and ICE officers. This experience serves to build up leaders in biblical peacemaking, education in immigration and mass incarceration policies, and strategies to support holistic restoration.”

Manoj Mathai
Lead Pastor Of The Evangelical Covenant Church Of Springfield, Massachusetts

 

You may pay in full at the time of your registration, or you can pay a deposit now, and the final payment will be due one month before the trip.

  • Pricing for those who work for the denomination, are consistent attendees, or members of an Evangelical Covenant church, and/or individuals from North Park University/North Park Theological Seminary.

  • Pricing for those not affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

*Please note: no refunds will be issued within one month of the experience.

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