About this time last month, we told you about Lorenzo and Oralia Ortiz, who have maintained their ministry to asylum seekers in Laredo, Texas, despite intense pressure. When a nearby church decided it no longer would provide shelter to the immigrants, the Ortizes opened their own home.

The immigration crisis’ victims have many faces, but some are harder to see than others, reports Jorge Zapata. God loves all of them equally, and Jorge spends every day trying to make sure they know it.

Dallas congregations affiliated with Fellowship Southwest and CBF Texas are part of a humanitarian coalition that has begun to serve asylum seekers temporarily relocated in North Texas.

A booming-by-necessity immigration ministry in Del Rio, Texas, serves refugees you probably haven’t seen on TV—Christians fleeing persecution in Africa.

Add Lorenzo and Oralia Ortiz to the list of saints sacrificially demonstrating the love of Jesus in the immigration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Second Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, built 20 bunkbeds for immigrants and refugees in Piedras Negras, Mexico. The group in Lubbock prepared the pieces ahead of time and then delivered them last weekend. Together with their new friends at Primera Iglesia Baptista, they assembled the beds.

Several weeks ago, we publicized the need for comfortable sleeping arrangements for the masses of people arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Our partner churches south of the border are housing immigrants while they wait until they are allowed to enter the United States.

Members from Second Baptist Church of Lubbock, Texas, answered the call to help refugees and immigrants at the border. They got together to build 17 bunk beds, which they will deliver to Piedras Negras, Mexico, at the end of this month.

Spring break mission projects—which blossom like bluebonnets this time of year—make a huge positive impact on families who live in colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as the churches that serve them, missions leaders report.

TIJUANA, Mexico—The flood of immigrants amassed at the Mexico-U.S. border presents both a humanitarian crisis and an opportunity for sharing the gospel, a team of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders who traveled to the region learned.

God has often surprised—but never disappointed—Anyra Cano.