By Nikki Toyama-Szeto Editor's Note: On Tuesday, June 19th, ESA's Executive Director Nikki Toyama-Szeto participated in an event outside Customs and Border Protection in support of #NotWithoutMyChild. Here are her thoughts immediately following that event....
For I was hungry and you gave me food I was thirsty and you gave me drink I was a stranger and you welcomed me I was naked and you gave me clothing I...
By Kevin Singer If you are a Christian, you are part of a refugee story. You join the ranks of Abraham, who took a dangerous journey from his homeland of Ur to the land...
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto My family's immigration journey included a significant period time when my mother was separated from her mother—my grandmother was an American citizen of Japanese descent, returning to work in the US....
By Noel Castellanos This past Sunday, churches across the globe celebrated Pentecost, the day we as Christians mark the arrival of the Holy Spirit after the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ. As I have...
By Ethan Tan On November 9, 2016, I rode the regional rail to my grad school class. People cried on the train, on the street, in class. Instead of the usual lecture and discussion...
By Sarah Quezada My cell phone rang while I was at work. I picked it up and closed my office door. "My mom called," my fiancé Billy told me, his voice small and quiet....
ESA's Nikki Toyama-Szeto joins twenty Christian leaders in a reading of Matthew 25, a powerful scripture that speaks to God's concern for the most vulnerable. Watch the two-minute video below, as we dig deeper into God's...
By John Seel, Ph.D. Over the course of the next few weeks the fate of DACA recipients—the "Dreamers"—hangs in the balance. When interviewed about these developments on the nightly news, Dreamers lament being seen...
By Megan Staub I moved from Pennsylvania to South Carolina two weeks before a major, evacuation-inducing hurricane and five weeks before last year's presidential election. I discovered that there's nothing like a natural disaster...
