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Bishop Eduardo Carrillo of the NWConference, Methodist Church of Mexico

Shalom
Desde el corazon de Dios

Como a un natural de vosotros tendreis al extranjero que more entre vosotros, y lo amaras como a ti mismo;  porque extranjero fuisteis en la tierra de Egipto. yo Jehova vuestro Dios. Levitico 19:34

Cada metodista, en la definicion de Juan Wesley, es aquella persona en cuyo corazon se ha derramado el amor de Dios, y no anhela otra cosa mas que amar a Dios y en cuanto esta  de el ejercer aquellas obras en favor de su projimo y su entorno social. para Juan Wesley la experiencia del corazon ardiente, fue una experiencia que no solo le cambio su vida sino que le impulso a salir y declarar, que "el mundo era su parroquia". por lo que en el contexto Wesleyano, ir al mundo implicaba no solo estar alerta a la diversidad de problemas o necesidades que este vivia sino que en cuanto estuviera de cada metodista provocar la iniciativas necesarias para dar respuestas a estos.

Hoy en dia unas de las problematicas que no somos ajenas a ellos es el incremento continuo de la migracion; nuestra congregaciones se han visto con mas frecuencia visitadas por migrantes. si ciertamente ha aumentado la migracion, tambien ha aumentado los hechos de injusticias sobre aquellos que estan en migracion. Por lo que el recorrer de estos no solo va acompañado por el dolor de haber dejado su casa, su tierra, o patria (voluntariamente o involuntariamente), sino que tambien conforme va el proceso de su migracion van a acumulando toda una serie de bajezas que van desde lo moral, espiritual y  fisico. Creo que como metodistas si cada mañana estamos siendo tocados por el amor de Dios en nuestro corazon, considero que tambien nuestra actitud de servicio hacia el migrante debe de ser favorecida y enriquecida por este amor, y nos debe de impulsar a buscar una pastoral que no solo los acompañe en el momento que viven sino que tambien debemos de ir pensando como podremos hacer una coneccion con aquellos otros organismos que ejercen tambien esta pastoral con el fin de encontrar mas presencia en este ministerio y que esta presencia nos permita alzar una voz de profetica de denuncia ante los hechos de injusticias que estos viven.

Nuestra Comision Nacional de Asuntos Migratorios ha estado ejerciendo un trabajo de asistencia social donde estamos proveyendoles a los migrantes de alimentacion, ropa, en casos de asistencia medica o apoyo de trasporte, esto en la Frontera Norte de nuestro pais. Mas nuestro trabajo no solo debe de ir mas alla sino que debe de tener mas presencia a nivel nacional, como tambien debemos elaborar un programa donde podamos promover la cultura a travez de una educacion congragacional respeto a este tema, en la cual a la luz de la Palabra de Dios podamos comprender la pastoral hacia el migrante conforme al corazon de Dios. y en el despertar de una cultura hacia migrante y su pastoral este programa tambien debe de encerrar los mecanismos necesarios para trabajar en unidad con aquellas instancias que nos llevan mas experiencias.

Estimados pastores y hermanos les invito que estemos  en un tiempo de oracion y porque no de ayuno para que sea Dios el que nos indique cual debe de ser nuestro caminar en este ministerio con el fin ser participe de esa tan anhelada "Reformando a la Nacion" y un espiritu de justicia de amor y cobertura hacia el migrante. Jehova guarda a los extranjeros...

Salmo 146:9.
Shalom


Conferencia Noroeste
Obispo Pbro. Eduardo Carrillo

 
 
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United Methodist Witness at the People's Global Action on Migration

 
 
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Poem from Arizona

Several members of the Methodist delegation to the People's Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights set up a table to share information on the ways that the United Methodist Church is working in relation to migration.

While sitting at the table Rev. Lorenza Smith met a woman who was sharing with her the reality for migrants in Arizona at this time.  The woman shared a poem that she had written and Rev. Smith asked to share it with the United Methodist Women online community.

6am and the church was filled

With those I thought had forgotten us

Struggling through the words of a farmworker’s song,

They came to hear and learn and act

To uphold the rule of humanity

One of them flew in from Massachusetts

Another lived north of the town.

And from there they went

Into the desert streets

Hoping that perhaps just for one day

They could to stop the hate

Stop the raids

Stop their society

From imploding on itself

 

July 29 was a Thursday

Set aside as a day of battle

In a low-intensity war against the innocent

In Phoenix, Arizona

 

But on that day

A young and humble man

Chained himself to the gates of the jail

To defend a family he had never met

A student whose name he didn’t know

Young and old refused to disperse

Under the sheriff’s orders

 

And I wept that day

Just as I wept when the love of my life

Gently stroked my hand for the very first time

As I learned that I was not alone

 

~Madeline Newman Rios

 
 
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Day 3 -- Why am I here?

Panravee Vongjaroenrat
Nov 4, 2010 1:20 AM

 

Why am I at the People’s Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights when my work is entirely domestic -- supporting the United Methodist network of church-based immigration law clinics?

Before coming here, I was not convinced that my attendance at an international meeting on global migration would be directly relevant or beneficial to my work.  I am a U.S. immigration attorney practicing U.S. immigration law.  From my law school study and actual professional experience, I know how futile it is to raise international human rights issues before immigration adjudicators and judges. 

Now that I’m here, I have learned how wrong I was.  This is the danger of succumbing to the limitations imposed on me and my work by others.  Because the U.S. government and judiciary tell me they don’t find relevant or persuasive the insistence on fundamental human rights and that U.S. sovereignty must prevail, I succumb.  I allow myself to limit my advocacy and all other work – even my thinking – to conform to the limits that they set out.  I agreed with them that fundamental human rights and global migration were irrelevant to my work.

But, here in Mexico City, I have met and heard from hundreds of organizations around the world that are struggling with the same limitations and fighting the same fight in all the different countries.  Here, I came to appreciate that governmental entities and international players such as international corporations actually work together to narrow the scope of the discussion on migration.  They cast it in the light of global development issues.  They make us all – the workers over the world – economic commodities to be distributed or channeled only according to the interest of national sovereignties and the global economy.  Absent from these discussions is the question of the workers’ human – or even civil – rights. 

How did we, as workers of the world and as citizens of these nations that participate in the global discussion, allow this to happen?  Because we succumb to the limitations imposed on us by our own governments and institutions.  We put on a narrow, tunneled lens that focuses our attention only on the realities facing us at home.  As a result, we forgot that others around the world are fighting the exact same fights.   Most importantly, we forgot that we could draw great force and strength from the solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the world.  And, significantly, we forgot that if governments and international corporations come together to set the scope of the discussion and narrow the issues, we as workers and advocates must do the same – if for nothing else, then to balance the dialogue, but more to make sure that we protect ourselves and our own rights as people and workers.  We must come together and insist on our rights - as loudly, frequently, and many times as it takes.

What will I do, then, with this new perspective I gained?  Nothing earth-shattering, but probably both professionally and personally transformative.  I will not allow my thinking to be limited by institutional powers.  I will ensure that I raise and insist on bringing the global context into my domestic work. Excuse a cliché – but it’s a cliché that has not been applied to U.S. immigration law practice or advocacy – I need to “think globally and act locally.”


 

 
 
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Global Migration and the Quest for Justice

In regard to global migration and justice, the Social Principles of the United Methodist Church affirm:

  1. "We commit ourselves as a church to the achievement of a world community that is a fellowship of persons who honestly love one another. We pledge ourselves to seek the meaning of the gospel in all issues that divide people and threaten the growth of world community." (64)
  2. "In order to provide basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, education, health care and other necessities, ways must be found to share more equitably the resources of the world." (58)
  3. "We advocate for the rights of all migrants and applaud their efforts toward responsibility self organization and self-determination." (163F)

You can read more on the philosophical conclusions of the United Methodist Task Force on Immigration, in regard to global migration by clicking here.

 
 
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The Latehomecomer is a book featured in the United Methodist Women's Reading Program, and is written by Kao Kalia Yang.  In this moving, intimate portrait of a family, Kao Yang describes a migration story with an escape from Laos, life in refugee camps, the hardships and great joy of caring for a growing family in a new land, and her personal experiences with American life.

 

This book belongs to the following categories for the 2011 Reading Program:

Nurturing for Community

 

 
 
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Enrique's Journey Click to buy

 

In another UMW Reading Program book, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. 

This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey.  Nazario’s powerful writing illuminates one of the darkest tories in our country.  This is outstanding journalism.  …you know these young heroes.  They live next door. – Isabel Allende

This book belongs to Social Action category for the 2008 Reading Program.  

 
 
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