Interns preach together about their experience with FSW

Christina Banchs-McRae (left) and Sejana Yoo at Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, TX

Did you know Connection is as vital to Fellowship Southwest as Compassion and Justice? When people of faith who care about similar issues connect, we can collaborate and learn how to best serve, love, and advocate for our neighbors. This is what happened last weekend when two of our 2024 FSW summer interns shared the pulpit at Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, TX.

Last Sunday, August 11, Christina Banchs-McRae, the youth minister at Austin Heights Baptist Church, who interned in Piedras Negras, Mexico, invited her fellow intern Sejana Yoo, who served in Brownsville, to preach together about their work and experience on the borderlands.

These two women did not know each other before their internship; they didn't even serve in the exact location, yet they grew a connection for compassion and justice for migrants and found a way to collaborate on bearing witness to God's work on the border.

Christina connected to Fellowship Southwest through her church and Perkins Seminary at SMU. Sejana connected to FSW through Anyra's work with Texas Baptist Women in Ministry, Truett Seminary, and the 2023 Compassion and Justice Conference.

We hope you will be inspired by their message to connect with Fellowship Southwest and others who also care about compassion and justice. 

Please check out the service here; you will see them start at minute 50:50.