Editor’s note: This is the latest in an ongoing series.
A Christian organization on the border will identify refugee families and individuals crossing our southern border who speak English and want help to settle in the U.S. We would tell them to send us 20 of these families. We receive comfort from Isaiah 49:7b-9 as we first pray, then organize to do our tasks:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.
I will preserve you and give you as a covenant
to the people who have crossed the border
to restore their families to inherit ...