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Conference explores U.S.-Mexico issues

PHOENIX (PNS) The April 15-17 “Crossing Borders, Encountering God” conference — co-sponsored by the Synods of the Sun and Southwest of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Presbyteries of Noroeste and Israel of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico — brought together close to 200 participants to consider border relations between the two countries and churches.

The most fundamental question participants faced: As people of faith, what does it mean to love our neighbors who might be undocumented and who are often stigmatized, marginalized, or at best invisible?
Speakers included Bernabe V. Bautista Reyes, vice-moderator of the General Assembly of the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico; Mark Adams, director of Frontera de Cristo, a PC(USA) border ministry; Frank Alton, pastor of Immanuel Church in Los Angeles, Calif.; Judy Fletcher, Synod of the Sun executive and one of the conference organizers; Ramon Garcia, president of Presbyterian Border Ministries, one of the conference’s participating organizations; and Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, professor of world Christianity at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga.

— Erin Dunigan

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