Category: Congregational Trip

Shelly Koo is the Associate for Online Content at UUSC (one of UUCSJ’s parent organizations). Her post was originally published on UUSC’s blog. Update November 30: David has been released and is now reunited with his family in the U.S. Last month, I had the opportunity to go on a Borderlinks trip with the UU College […]

Rev. Carolyn Patierno talks about how her eyes were opened by CSJ’s Border Witness Program and how this helped motivate her congregation’s decision to buy a house for refugee families. For more on this audacious decision see the linked Boston Globe article. For a brief moment in the fall of 2014 I had the eye-opening experience that […]

Kim Duncan is a CSJ program leader from Portland Oregon. She led a delegation from two churches in Oregon, including her own. Last October, a group from three UU congregations in Oregon went on CSJ’s Border Justice tour on the Arizona – Mexico border. On April 19th, we presented our experiences following the service at the […]

Tucson, Arizona – November 2015 “Sentencing” by Lawrence Gipe, ca. 2012-2014 Sixty two detainees, migrants from Mexico and Central America caught crossing the border illegally, sit in the large courtroom facing the judge. On his right is an interpreter. Our BorderLinks contingent sits in back to witness the proceedings, to keep the system “honest.” The […]

This post was written by Pat Caren from the UU Fellowship of Marion County Borderlinks trip in November 2015. To cross a desert on foot is to risk your life. In Cochise County, Arizona, more than 260 people have perished this way since 2009. Every Tuesday evening in the border town of Douglas, the Healing Our Borders […]