A ministry that gives low-cost authorized companies to immigrants has discovered a brand new house with Fellowship Southwest.
Immigration Service and Help Heart, often known as ISAAC, has been housed within the Baptist Basic Conference of Texas Christian Life Fee since 2010. It has been led by Jesús and Elsa Romero, who now have joined Fellowship Southwest, an interdenominational ministry with ties to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship that serves Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada.
CBF’s new ministry will probably be known as Academic and Authorized Immigration Ministries, or ELIM. BGCT plans to proceed working ISAAC.
This month, the U.S. Division of Justice acknowledged ELIM as an accredited immigration service supplier beneath the umbrella of Fellowship Southwest. The ministry will provide low-cost immigration counseling and authorized companies, in addition to immigration coaching for church buildings and people.
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The identify ELIM refers to Exodus 15:27, “Then the youngsters of Israel got here to Elim the place there have been 12 springs of water and 70 date palms, and so they camped there beside the waters.” Elim was not the ultimate vacation spot, however a life-giving cease between the place they’d left and the place God was main.
The Romeros will proceed to run ELIM primarily at their San Antonio workplace on the campus of Trinity Baptist Church. ELIM additionally has begun seeing shoppers on the campus of Woodland Baptist Church in North Central San Antonio, with plans of buying federal recognition as an ELIM Heart by the U.S. Division of Justice later within the 12 months. Each Trinity and Woodland are associate church buildings of Fellowship Southwest.
“I’m so excited to have Jesús and Elsa be a part of the Fellowship Southwest household,” stated Stephen Reeves, govt director of Fellowship Southwest. “I’ve identified them and admired their work since we served along with the CLC. Their ministry suits completely with Fellowship Southwest’s mission and I consider will assist broaden our immigration work to communities and church buildings removed from the border.”
Jesús Romero stated: “Elsa and I are grateful to the BGCT for trusting us with pioneering an immigration ministry greater than a decade in the past. The seeds of affection and take care of the strangers amongst us that had been planted then have grown immensely. We’re enthusiastic about these seeds rising exponentially in Texas and past by our partnership with Fellowship Southwest.”
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