Tag: Immigrants
Moving obstacles getting in the way
![Road barricade](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/luna_blog_top.png)
Sonya Luna names some of the obstacles her husband and other immigrants and children of immigrants must tackle as they plan their future and build a life in the U.S.
Warren: First UMC sews for good
![Women sewing](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/sewing_top.png)
Warren: First UMC has started an International Friendship Center that teaches immigrants, refugees, and anyone from the community wishing to learn how to sew.
Finding family in the heart of Dearborn
![Children participate in Easter StoryWalk.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/aya_story_top_web.png)
Dearborn First UMC has reinvigorated its commitment to refugees and asylum seekers by creating a new Response Team ministry, which recently sponsored a family from Jordan.
Act now on Drive SAFE bills
![Driver with license](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Driving-Pexels-Alexandr-Podvalny.jpg)
The Rev. Paul Perez explains the importance of a driver’s license to Michigan’s immigrants and families. He encourages support of the Drive SAFE bills in the state’s legislature.
5 Michigan churches receive UMCOR grants
![UMCOR grants help immigrants](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Immigrants-UMNews-Mike-DuBose-scaled.jpg)
Mustard Seed Grants from UMCOR continue an 80-year tradition of Welcoming the Stranger. Five UM churches in Michigan received these funds.
French-speaking UMC grows in Detroit
![French Church promotion](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/French-Church-Evangelisation-at-African-Gathering-002.jpg)
In 2016 two African pastors were sent by The Michigan Conference to begin a French United Methodist Church in Detroit. The congregation is on the grow despite challenges of COVID-19.
JFON-MI ‘still standing’ with neighbors
![JFON volunteers and staff standing together for clients](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JFON-Kalamazoo-Clements.jpg)
Justice For Our Neighbors-Kalamazoo is still standing with their clients, safely and effectively, during the threat of the health crisis.
Recovery from wildfires takes love
![California-Nevada Conference Disaster Response Coordinator Sonja Edd-Bennett (left) shows Revs. Jacey and Emily Pickens-Jones (right), pastors of Sonoma United Methodist Church, features of USB chargers from the conference being donated to the church's hospitality enter.](https://michiganumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CA-Fires-Nov-2019.png)
United Methodist responses to the annual wildfires in California include immediate help and longer-term efforts to tend to the needs of those who’ve been through traumatic events.