Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Christine Chakoian & Jake Putich, Director of Faith Formation & Creation Care, this important conversation will invite us to engage thoughtfully with an issue that elicits strong convictions on all sides.
Our meetings (in-person + zoom) will include prayer, reflection, and discussion around the issue of immigration. We’ll use the Doing Justice online curriculum created by Fuller Seminary’s Brehm Preaching—a John Ogilvie initiative. The curriculum reviews key concepts and history related to immigration and then presents four different Christian responses. The purpose of the course is to facilitate a conversation about immigration that may be more honest and go deeper than previously experienced.
You’ll need about an hour each week to go through the online content in your own time—read a little, watch some videos and consider some reflection questions. The cost will be $10 per participant which covers the cost of the online curriculum. Scholarships available.
Our hope is to develop a freshly invigorated and clarified passion to reflect God’s heart for justice and mercy in immigration issues. This may be a difficult journey, but by learning to understand why people hold certain positions, we will grow in wisdom and insight towards God’s will regarding the complex issue of immigration.
You can sign up on the Side Porch or online here. For the sake of our neighbors and our world, please prayerfully consider being part of this important study. For more information, please contact Jake Putich at jputich@westwoodpres.org.
