Everyday Peacemakers

EVERYDAY PEACEMAKER:

Everyday Peacemakers: See, Immerse, Contend and Restore.

Here are some ways you can be an everyday peacemaker for immigration.

SEE the humanity, dignity and image of God in everyone.

Email Jen to do a monthly book club, reading In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero
Signup for National Immigration Forum updates: Noorani’s notes & more
Watch The Stranger, a documentary on immigration in the US
Read about Immigration in Minnesota at MN Compass
Join We Welcome Refugees in supporting refugees and immigrants (Instagram)
Educate yourself about immigration in the US. Start with learning about asylum seekers, refugees, and DACA individuals.
- National Immigration Law Center has a lot of current issues explained
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and learn about worldwide refugees
- United Nations High Commissioner for Asylum Seekers and learn around asylum
- USA for UNHCR has our country’s information on refugees
- United Nations issues affecting the world today: poverty, migration, human rights, & more
- Refugees International is an independent organization helping refugees
- Human Rights Watch for worldwide human rights issues
- Human Rights First with information on immigration, refugees, national security, & foreign policy
- American Immigration Council on all things immigration
Eat or shop in a restaurant/neighborhood with immigrants

IMMERSE by moving toward conflict with tools to heal rather than to win.

Call your state representatives and senators to request more immigrant, refugees, and asylum seekers allowed in the US and ask for better conditions for them at the border.
Go on an Immersion Trip to San Diego/Tijuana with the Global Immersion Project
Go on a Border Encounter to El Paso/Juarez with Abara Frontiers

CONTEND, not by getting even, but getting creative in love.

Get involved locally
- Join MIRAC - Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (Facebook)
- Join Release MN 8 for Minnesota’s southeast Asian immigration issues (Facebook)
Donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (Instagram)
Donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights
Pray for those forcibly separated from family, those persecuted in their home countries, or those displaced from their home countries.

RESTORE by sharing tables with former enemies and celebrate the big and small ways God is restoring our broken world.