Important Information for Migrants in Minnesota

From the Missioners

Jesus’ life and teachings emphasized radical welcome, including migrants in our midst.
The Episcopal Church has a long history of supporting the dignity and rights of
immigrants and refugees. At our recent ECMN convention, we passed the Migration
with Dignity Resolution (C081), which launched diocesan efforts to support migrants
across Minnesota.

Find resources below, put together by ECMN’s own group of leaders who have
organized to take action around migrant support and advocacy. Please feel free to
share these resources with members of your congregation, and make them available to
the local community.

A wonderful place to start your engagement in advocacy is with Episcopal Migration
Ministries. They have a wealth of resources, including resources to support your study
and worship.

Resources for Migrants and Leaders

 

Episcopal Church Policies and Policy Updates

The current administration has rescinded "Protected Areas" policies, allowing I.C.E. to enter sensitive locations (e.g., places of worship, hospitals). Stay informed and prepared as more information is becoming available soon about the implications of this change on congregations.

Stay Updated

The situation is changing constantly. To ensure you’re up to date on all the latest, please
follow these organizations:

Upcoming Meeting

Join us for an ECMN-wide meeting on the second Monday of each month at 7 PM. The
next meeting is Monday, February 10th. To receive the Zoom link, contact Deacon Rex
McKee at rex.mckee@gmail.com. These meetings offer opportunities for prayer,
resource sharing, and calls to action.

Prayer for Migrants and Those in Their Service

Faithful action in the world must always be grounded by yoking our hearts to the living God through prayer. We cannot do this work or bear this witness if we rely only on our own efforts. To help us pray together, I offer the collect below, and encourage congregations to use it as the concluding collect at the Prayers of the People every Sunday between now and Easter Day. 

While we are recommitting today to funding, advocacy, and prayer, none of these will address every challenge or need. As limited human beings, we cannot save or fix the world. Our work as disciples of Jesus in the face of the world's brokenness and suffering is always about witness and resistance.

In this season, as in all seasons, we are called to resist the forces that assault the belovedness and dignity of every human being, and to witness to our hope of God’s coming kingdom, where the only law is love, and where all people, from every tribe, language, race, culture, and nation, gather together in perfect joy, peace, and abundant life. 

O God, who embraced us with perfect love and made us your people when we were yet strangers to you: be present with all refugees, immigrants, and displaced people throughout the world; may they know the consolation of your presence, and the liberating power of your love. Then give us grace, we pray, to extend ever wider your embrace in a world of exclusion, until all your children are knit together as beloved family in the perfect love that is your very heart, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who was displaced among us, and who now lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. 


 

In Christ,

ECMN Migration Caucus Leadership Team: Rex McKee, Rena

Turnham, Susan Moss, and Daniel Romero