“What do you think?” Rob Fohr, director of Faith-Based Investing and Corporate Engagement for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), asked after surveying the multi-room warehouse packed with household supplies.
“I think there’s a lot to do,” replied Carl Horton, coordinator of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.
Presbyterians living hundreds of miles from the U.S.-Mexico border can help asylum seekers and those facing deportation from the United States in a number of ways, including advocacy, accompaniment and aide.
La continúa recuperación de huracanes, así como la protección de los derechos sobre la tierra son las razones principales del viaje del personal de la Agencia Presbiteriana de Misión a San Juan, Puerto Rico el próximo mes.
La inscripción para el evento más grande de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) – el Trienio Presbiteriano para Jóvenes 2019(PTY por sus siglas en inglés) iniciará pronto.
Continued hurricane recovery as well as the protection of land rights are key reasons that Presbyterian Mission Agency staff will travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico next month.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance uses terms like “unprecedented” and “all-encompassing” when referring to the destructive fires still burning both in Northern and Southern California – especially the Camp Fire that destroyed much of Paradise, Calif., a fire that had claimed at least 79 lives as of Tuesday and destroyed more than 10,000 homes.
While the deadliest fires ever to strike California continue to burn, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has deployed four National Response Team members to Southern California, where residents are enduring both a mass shooting and the Woolsey and Hill fires.
Despite the heat and humidity, as many as 7,000 Central American migrants are still making their way slowly northward from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador into Mexico. The latest reports estimate they are still more than 1,100 miles from the U.S. border.
