Neighbor Focus, Taiwan

Neighbor Focus, Taiwan

Imagine that you see an ad that says “Help Wanted”- jobs in factories, construction, households, and fishing boats.  Hours: 12-15 hours a day; must leave your home country; working conditions-poor; pay below minimum wage.Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers...
Step 2: Make Personal Connections

Step 2: Make Personal Connections

READ: the Faith Perspective article as a class/group. DISCUSS:  Around the world, the majority of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers are compelled to leave their homes out of a sense of desperation.  They are seeking safety, food, shelter, work, and...
Step 1: Pray

Step 1: Pray

Emmanuel-God With UsLoving God, during this Advent Season, help us to:Be with the migrant who is fleeing violence to seek safety in a new land.Be with the refugee who hungers for enough to eat in an overcrowded camp.Be with the teenager leaving home to work in a...
Objective

Objective

Students will be able to: EXPLAIN and give examples of why people leave their homes and seek refuge in new lands. UNDERSTAND ways our faith calls us to respond in love to the current realities of migration.DEVELOP A PLAN that illustrates how one can support...
Faith Perspective

Faith Perspective

Once a week Maryknoll Sister Lelia Mattingly passes through the security checkpoint of the U.S. Immigration Detention Center in El Paso to visit Rosa, a 63-year-old grandmother from Honduras.Rosa raised her granddaughter, Yaneth, in a loving home in Honduras. When...