BREAKOUT PANEL: Seeking Sanctuary: Immigration & Faith Communities
Moderators
Religion & Immigration Reporter, The Columbus Dispatch
Speakers
National Grassroots Coordinator, Church World Service
@noelsyandersenRev. Noel Andersen has served as the CWS Grassroots Coordinator for six years, helping develop a national network of faith communities acting in solidarity with immigrants' and refugee. He was also instrumental in creating a Leadership Development for Social Change...
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Activist & Immigrant Mother in Sanctuary
614-648-3663Edith Espinal is an immigrant mother in sanctuary to avoid deportation. She has been living in the Columbus Mennonite Church since October 2, 2017. (Photo by Steve Pavey)
Ohio Sanctuary Collective
614-556-0979 // @cbussanctuary // Rubén Castilla Herrera is a second generation Mexican-American born in Seguin, Texas. He spent his childhood as a migrant farmworker in California, Oregon and Washington. He graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and attended...
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Pastor, Columbus Mennonite Church
614-940-7839Joel Miller is pastor of Columbus Mennonite Church. He previously pastored Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship and received his Master of Divinity from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind. Since the fall of 2017 the congregation has been providing sanctuary...
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