Surge at U.S. border pushes some evangelicals to help asylum seekersPHOENIX/TAOS, N.M. - 22 December 2018: Members of an Arizona evangelical church are for the first time taking Central American asylum seekers into their homes, responding to record arrivals of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.The predominantly white Central Christian Church, a Phoenix area "megachurch" had in the past assisted Muslim refugees. That flow could dwindle if the Trump administration is successful in its plans to make non-Mexican asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their claims are processed. "It’s the first time we have been engaged with asylum seekers,” said Matt Nutter, director of global outreach at Central Christian. Two Anglo-American churches stepped up, one of them Central Christian. "Once you get a taste of it, then you realize that this is kind of what being a human is about,” said Ericka, also a pastor at Central Christian.

Source: Egypt Today December 22, 2018 12:00 UTC