Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for being a part of Border Perspective's story this year.

As a donor, trip participant, or other member of our community, you've empowered our ministry on the border and opted-in to what God is doing nationwide. 

Our impact on the border

Thanks to you, 2022 has been our most impactful year yet.

• 20,000 individuals received food from our strategic partner, Iglesia Misionera Cristo Vive. Throughout the year, participants from service-learning trips supported Iglesia Misionera Cristo Vive's weekly food distributions, helping them reach this number.

• 13,336 hours our trip participants have served with local organizations across South Texas. Our local partners include a diversity of faith-based organizations directly serving asylum seekers and immigrants on both sides of the border.  

• 6,000 hot meals our teams served to asylum seekers at a respite center in McAllen, TX, over a six week period. 

• 302 individuals who visited us on service learning trips throughout 2022. Our participants have included liberals and conservatives, young children and retired folks, immigrants from all backgrounds and American citizens, pastors and agnostics. 

• 250 migrants hosted in an emergency shelter at a hotel in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, during a winter storm. We were able to fund this shelter fully, thanks to your generosity. 

• 26 churches and organizations from across the nation who partnered with us this year. 

More than just highlighting numbers, we want to celebrate the lives impacted in the process and thank all who have given and been a part of our peacemaking work this year.

Nationwide Shifts 

Our goal has always been to equip Christians with a biblical perspective on immigration. When participants head home after a service-learning trip, we pray that they lead their communities to respond compassionately to the needs of their immigrant neighbors.

Throughout 2022, God has been answering these prayers on a nationwide scale. 

This year a Lifeway Research survey showed a hopeful shift in American evangelical's views on immigration. For instance, a 2018 Pew Research survey found only 25% of white evangelicals believed the U.S. has a responsibility to accept refugees. Remarkably, Lifeway’s 2022 report found that number has jumped up to 70% for evangelicals as a whole and 68% for white evangelicals.

I do not doubt that our participants and wider community of donors and supporters have been a part of orchestrating this shift.

Please donate to support our vision for 2023

The 2022 survey mentioned above also reveals areas where we—the American church—need to grow. It suggests that evangelical perspectives on immigration are led primarily by the media and individual explorations of scripture, not by the church. 

Throughout 2023, we want to equip pastors and build up young leaders from around the country to lead their local communities in caring for the least among them. 

We can't—and scripture suggests we shouldn't—do this alone. 

As 2022 comes to a close, please consider an end-of-year donation to support our work in 2023 and beyond.

Your donations are always tax deductible, but this is your last chance for a 2022 tax-deductible donation. 

Friends, thank you so much for your generosity. Blessing and peace to you and your family.

Yonathan Moya, Executive Director