BORDER PARTNERS

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CARLOS NAVARRO

Brownsville, Texas

Pastor of Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville and founder of Golán Ministries

• Immigrant respite center with private rooms, communal kitchen, clothes closet, laundry.
• Provides meals to migrants in Brownsville.
• Works in network with other shelters and non-profits to provide humanitarian aid. 
• Homeless feeding ministry in downtown Brownsville.
• Ministry welcomes youth and fami
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ALMA RUTH

McAllen, TX / Reynosa, MX

Founder of Practice Mercy and what FaithWorks calls the chaplain of the migrant camps.

• Hosts groups to see different aspects of life at the borderlands.
• Educates about ministry to migrants and current experiences of migrants.
• Advocates for immigration reform.
• Ministry welcomes adults comfortable with crossing the border and praying with migrants.
• Recipient of support f

EDREI RODRÍGUEZ

Reynosa, Mexico

Pastor, Mercy Without Borders

• Specializes in ministry to Haitian migrants in Reynosa.
• Plants churches for Haitian communities.
• Ministers to migrant children in Reynosa.
• Recipient of support from the Knox Fund for Immigrant Relief since 2024.

CALY FERNÁNDEZ

McAllen, Texas

Executive Director of House of Love and Justice

• Ministry to immigrants living in colonias (small, rural, unincorporated towns without utilities or access to many services)
• Organizes food distributions and community health clinics. 
• Equips members of the colonias to take leadership in community development.
• Welcomes churches to volunteer in their programs.  
• Recipient of supp

LULÚ

Reynosa, Mexico

Director of Casa Clinica Lulú

• Runs a migrant shelter in Reynosa for medically fragile migrants.
• Partners with Edrei Rodríguez who leads worship and activities for children at the shelter regularly.
• Recipient of support from the Knox Fund for Immigrant Relief via FaithWorks partner churches since 2024.

ROSALÍO SOSA

Cd. Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas

Director of the Red Alburgue para Migrantes

• Works in network with shelters across El Paso and  Cd. Juarez.
• Provided shelter in Cd. Juarez and in Rural towns west of Juarez in the Chihuahuan desert.
• Recipient of the Emmanuel McCall Racial Justice Trailblazer Award from CBF in 2022.
• Recipient of support from the Knox Fund for Immigrant Relief since 2019.