Immigration Task Force

About Us

Approximately 850,000 immigrants enter the United States without permission every year. America benefits and prospers because of their labor; yet denies many of them basic rights like fair wages, health benefits, the opportunity to be with their families, and social services. As Christians and United Methodists, we are called to love the stranger in our midst and to treat that stranger as we would our own family. We must be a church that welcomes the foreigners into our cities, our towns, our neighborhoods, our churches, our homes. 

Our Focus Areas are:

• Engaging and Resourcing our Local Churches
• Getting our Local Churches excited and active
• Sanctuary Churches
• Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON)
• Refugees
• Global Migration
• Advocacy
• Legal Clinics
• Document Preparation
• Know Your Rights
• Citizenship
• DACA

Immigration Information for our Local Churches

Western Jurisdiction Immigration Task Force 

• Brochure about the WJITF (English / Spanish)
• Western Jurisdiction Immigration Task Force Statement in Support of Ministry with Detained & Separated Families (English / Spanish)
• Prayer of Confession  (English / Spanish)

General Board of Global Ministries

• Book of Resolutions: Global Migration and the Quest for Justice
• What the United Methodist Church Says: Global Migration
• Global Migration Resources for Local Churches
• Global Migration Articles

General Board of Church and Society

• Global Migration - Moving from one place to another is a protected human right.
• Immigration to the U.S.

Other Resources

• Tucson Sanctuary Church Casts Out Fear
• The Inn Project – A Migrant Shelter in Arizona
• ** DACA Scholarship

For more information, contact:

Rolly Loomis, Interim Coordinator
Immigration Task Force
rolly.loomis@cnumc.org