Add to EJ Playlist  Thoughts on Jesus and undocmented persons

Add to EJ Playlist  Katie Phalen, a high school teacher and mother from Phoenix, Arizona, shares her story of how she became aware of the DREAM Act through her son, an intern at the Church World Service and how this brought her to the realization that we all must actively support such legislation rather than simply saying we agree with it and then forgetting about it. Her New Year's Resolution is to work towards getting the DREAM Act passed by getting her friends and neighbors to support it as well. Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Minister Parish Jones of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, tells the story of an immigrant couple and their child, named Eddie, who became very sick one day while his parents were working in the fields and came very close to dying but survived, even though his parents could not afford to take him to the emergency room. He speaks about how his faith tells him that stories like this should never happen and that we should treat strangers the same way we treat our friends, and offer them the same opportunities afforded to citizens and their families. He resolves to make his New Year's Resolution be to being committed to assure that people in his region and congregation understand this story and that they don't have to happen along with calling his Senators and Representative and urging them to support comprehensive immigration reform. To learn more about the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, please visit their website at: http://www.pcus a.org/ Will you join him? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Mayom Lazaro is a Sudanese refugee who arrived in the U.S. in 2003 and who now works for a refugee resettlement agency called RefugeeOne in Chicago. Tells his personal story of how he was separated from his wife and son when he moved to the U.S.. how his wife just arrived 2 years ago due to the complex U.S. refugee process but that his son did not accompany her. Although his son lives in Canada now, Mayom cannot visit or see him and he has not seen his son since 2004. He calls upon all people of faith to support all policies which can bring immigrant and refugee families together and to get involved in helping families unite. If you would like to learn more about RefugeeOne, please visit their website at: http://www.refu geeone.org/ Will you join him? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Jasmine Franco, a member of the First United Methodist Church who also works at the Washtenaw County Workers Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, shares her personal and moving story of being separated from her mother at age 17 when her mother was arrested and deported by immigration authorities and her father left soon after to avoid being arrested. She chose to stay in the U.S. because this is her country and she was born here. Her extraordinarily deep faith has kept her going through the hardest times and her New Year's Resolution is to volunteer at an ESL program and to pray for immigrant families. Help young people in similar situations who weren't born here like Jasmine, but were brought to the US as children and face many of the same situations, by supporting the DREAM Act. Call your Senators TODAY and every day this week and next week until the DREAM Act is passed. You can find their phone numbers at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov. Find out more about the DREAM Act at http://supporti mmigrationrefor m.org. And pass the word along! To learn more about the Washtenaw County Workers Center, please visit their website at: http://workerce nter.org/ Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  The President of RefugeeOne, a not-for-profit organization that welcomes refugees to Chicago and Illinois, Greg Wangerin tell the story of a refugee who has struggled to become integrated due to lack of resources. She was born in Burma with a birth defect so that one leg was shorter than the other. When she and her family were brought to the U.S., this organization could not find a job for her, and this is not the kind of welcome that we want to extend to refugees who come here looking for a better life. His New Year's Resolution is to get the Peters Bill, a bill that will help refugees get resettled with dignity, to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote. To learn more about RefugeeOne and their programs, please visit their website at: http://www.refu geeone.org/ Will you join him? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Charis Steffel, who works in Columbus, Ohio at a refugee resettlement agency, shares a sobering statistic that 80% of the foreign born population in the U.S. has never been to the home of a U.S. citizen and tells the story of a woman from Baghdad who she befriended who told her that she was her first American friend. Her New Year's Resolution is to get 10 churches from the Columbus area to co-sponsor refugee families in order to develop truly meaningful relationships with these people and to welcome them into out society and neighborhoods. Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Audrey Kelley, who works for the refugee resettlement organization Bethany Christian Services, tells the story of one of her close refugee friends from Burma, who was forced to work for the Burmese military, escaped, saw her village destroyed by the Army and then escaped with her family to a refugee camp in Thailand. She resolves to support comprehensive immigration reform along with immigration reform to ensure that immigrants and refugees who come to the U.S. can live with dignity. If you would like to learn more about Bethany Christian Service and their refugee resettlement program, please visit their website at: http://www.beth any.org/A55798/ bethanyWWW.nsf/ 0/4B46007C0900C EAF85256DCF0057 5508 Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Erin Cox, who works for the 8th Day Center for Justice, speaks about her work with this organization working with undocumented immigrants and visiting these people in jail before they are deported back to their home countries. She describes how this year has been the most profound of her career, because she has seen how our broken immigration system has broken up countless families and has ruined the lives of far too many people. She calls upon all people of faith to live as one family and makes her New Year's Resolution to continue to stand with immigrants to this country and their families, and to make the concept of one family a reality. If you would like to learn more about the 8th Day Center for Justice and their programs, please visit their website at: http://www.8thd aycenter.org/ Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Pastor Allison Harrington, from Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, AZ shares the story of how here church became a plaintiff in the Friendly House vs. Whiting case after the state of Arizona passed S.B. 1070 into law. She describes how she and her congregation were called by the Scripture to help immigrants and to welcome the stranger and to recognize our common humanity, rather than rejecting them and treating immigrants poorly. For more information about the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, please visit their website at: http://www.sout hsidepresbyteri an.org/ Will you join her? Visit www.interfaithi mmigration.org for more information on the New Year's Resolution Campaign.

Add to EJ Playlist  Rev. John L. McCullough, CEO & Executive Director of Church World Service, is making it his New Year's Resolution to help build stronger, more welcoming communities with CWS member communions, and to call his Senators and Representatives once a week to urge them to support humane reforms to U.S. immigration policies. Will you join him? Go to www.supportimmi grationreform.o rg for more information on Church World Service's work on immigration and to get more involved in the New Year's Resolution Campaign!

Add to EJ Playlist  Jessica Ennis, of Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan, shares her story of working with a refugee family from Bhutan and the joy she got out...

Add to EJ Playlist  Paco Martorell, a native of Mexico who has been working in the Milwaukee Public School System for the past 30 years shares the story of a family in which the...

Add to EJ Playlist  Reverend Melanie Lee Carey, the lead Pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Ypsilanti Michigan, shares the story of a young boy named Miguel from her...

Add to EJ Playlist  Noel Andersen, Assistant Pastor of Good Shepherd UCC, Sahuarita, AZ, shares the experiences of his neighbors suffering from fear in the after math of Arizona...

Add to EJ Playlist  Rev. Dr. Jim Ryan shares what the Colorado Council of Churches is doing to educate communities in Colorado about immigration policies through a faith-based p...

Add to EJ Playlist  Illana Naylor, who works with both Unity in the Community and the Church of the Brethren, shares her motivation to build more welcoming communities. Illana c...

Add to EJ Playlist  Rev. José Luis Casal, General Missioner of The Presbytery of Tres Rios, shares the story of his congregation on the U.S. / Mexico border. Rev. Casal is makin...

Add to EJ Playlist  Michael Hyatt shares his story as a volunteer with Humane Borders and the Samaritans in Arizona, encountering death and humanity along the border on a regula...

Add to EJ Playlist  Amanda Roth from Ecumenical Refugee and Immigration Services in Denver, CO shares the story of her friend working hard and doing what he needs to do to provi...

Add to EJ Playlist  Ruben Herrera shares his story of growing up grappling with difficult feelings around the American ideal of "liberty and justice for all", and how he is work...

Add to EJ Playlist  Gabriela Rivero shares her personal story of feeling like an outsider due to anti-immigrant sentiment. She calls on people of faith to join her in her New Ye...

Add to EJ Playlist  Rev. David Fraccaro shares his story about moving from small town Indiana to NYC, and how his life and faith were transformed through his encounters with imm...

Add to EJ Playlist  Mark Adams, a Presbyterian minister who works with Frontera de Cristo shares the heartbreaking story of Rosalia Bazan Miranda and her family, and calls peopl...

Add to EJ Playlist  Rev. John Fife, a retired minister from Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona tells the story of Luis and other migrants who risk their lives to j...

Add to EJ Playlist  Kim Gudimetla from Refugee Services of Texas in Fort Worth shares her concern for her community as anti-immigrant sentiments create fear and contention betwe...