Looking for a way to engage your congregation around issues of immigration and faith?
The Sanctuary Movement, through national staff and local partners, leads workshops for faith communities who want to discern a ministry to support immigrants and refugees in their communities. Workshops are interactive learning experiences that cover issues such as immigration & the Bible, ICE enforcement in local communities, congregational Sanctuary, privilege, and intercultural understanding. The Sanctuary Movement can bring the workshop to you and tailor it to your specific interests.
If you are interested in setting up a workshop, please email sanctuarymvmt@gmail.com.
Here's a sampling of the workshops we offer:
If you are interested in setting up a workshop, please email sanctuarymvmt@gmail.com.
Here's a sampling of the workshops we offer:
- Congregational Sanctuary 101
- Being a Welcoming Congregation
- Asylum Accompaniment
- Rapid Response/How to Prepare for ICE raids
- What to Do if ICE comes to your Faith Community
- Organizing for Just Immigration Policies at a State and Local Level
- Faithful Voting in an Election Year
- Sacred Resistance or Sanctuary as Resistance
- Having Difficult Conversations in Faith Communities
- Anti-Racist Sanctuary Practices
Past Workshops
- Seeking Refuge, Wild Goose Festival 2019
- Reclaiming Sanctuary: A Faithful Response for Welcoming Migrants, Fayetteville, AR
- Faith Communities as Sanctuary: Standing with Migrants for Justice, Grand Island & Omaha, NE
-Migration and the Bible
-How does US Immigration work? Laws and legislative updates
-How can congregations prepare and respond?
The presenters will share personal stories of people who have been in sanctuary. We will explore different ways welcoming congregations can support immigrants.