Anybody who has met him knows how brave and humble, humane and resourceful, Pastor Lorenzo Ortiz is.
To understand both the challenges and the possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border:
To understand both the challenges and the possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border:
Watch the last in our Voices from the Border video series:
To be welcoming, you don't need to be rich. B/k asylum seeking families aren't coming to take anything from you. They're seeking safety, a place to build. We can all give and we can all welcome. If the Pastor can save lives on faith and a shoestring, the U.S. can do so much more.
Relevant is this by Martin Luther King, Jr., from “A Time to Break the Silence,”
“On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act.
“On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act.
One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
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