While Sara is originally from Virginia, she moved to Guatemala in 2016 to work for Mennonite Central Committee. In 2020 she moved to Tucson to work for Kino Border Initiative after ending her first (but not last) stint in Guatemala. The following objects below represent the story of Sara’s life from her childhood in Virginia…
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Nuestra primera joven que queremos presentar es Brenda. Brenda es de la ciudad de Tucson, Arizona, y trabaja en iniciativas de salud fronteriza y como educadora de salud comunitaria en la región fronteriza de Arizona. Como mujer mexicoamericana de primera generación, busca inspirar a otras mexicoamericanas de primera generación para crear cambios positivos en sus…
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Our first young adult that we want to highlight is Brenda. Brenda is a native of Tucson, AZ, and works in border health initiatives and as a community health educator in the Arizona border region. As a first generation Mexican-American woman she seeks to inspire other first generation Mexican-Americans to create positive changes in their…
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En el pasado, el trabajo del colectivo 787 ha sido ayudar a involucrar a los jóvenes con las iglesias. Pero, en una de nuestras platicas recientes de los jóvenes en la frontera, ¿una de nuestras panelistas nos hizo la pregunta de por qué las iglesias quieren participar con los jóvenes? ¿Es solo porque las iglesias…
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In the past the work of 787 collective has been to help engage congregations to connect with young adults, but, in one of our recent discussions with Young Adults in the Borderlands, one of our panelists brought up the question of why do churches want to engage with young adults? Is it just because they are…
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Dear Ones, I write to you on the Lunar New Year, a tradition that is not endemic to my culture, but one that I’ve come to value for a number of reasons. I often feel that I start the calendar year with ideas of what the year SHOULD be, and by the time Lunar New…
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The following is my response to the 787’s prompt to contemplate death and faith in 2020. It is divided into four sections, each accompanied by a piece of music. If for whatever reason you can’t read all this, I recommend you simply listen to the music. It does a much finer job of expressing what…
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Like most people, I’m terrified of death. There are probably some folks who have come to terms with their own mortality, either because they believe in an afterlife or because they are obsessed with the undead (as in a 1997 episode of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer). But I’m comfortable assuming that, like me, the majority…
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God help me to be free.God I want to be seen for me. God please be with me…May I not meet a fate such as what we’ve seen. With black hands tied in pleasant knots in front of me,I pray they’ll know I’m not threatening, and as kind as can be. Let my lungs expand…
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As I write this, it is November 11, 2020. It is approximately six months later than we’d hope to start this series, which is something I now lovingly call “pandemic time.” That is, nothing happens as planned or on schedule in this pandemic. Today is Veteran’s Day, a day we remember people willing to face…
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