Conservative Evangelical Women Take the Gospel to the Border: ‘We Lay Hands on Them’

A new study from Lifeway found that 91 percent of evangelicals favor immigration legislation that guarantees tighter borders. That same number also supports immigration measures that respect the God-given dignity of every person. The group Women of Welcome is doing that just by approaching the issue from a biblical stance, not a political one.  
 
“I’ve been working on the pro-life movement really for preborn lives and kids who were trapped in foster care or were awaiting forever families. And I was just challenged by a friend who worked really in the immigration space with World Relief to say, ‘Hey, does your pro-life agenda, does your pro-life, biblical worldview extend to those across the border?'” 

Bri Stensrud, the group’s director, told CBN News her initial answer was no. A trip to the U.S.-Mexico border in 2019 changed both her heart and mind.
 
“I met with vulnerable mothers and migrant children who were also mothers themselves due to the violence that had happened to them in their countries,” Stensrud explained.  “And they were seeking safety, they were seeking a different life. And that wasn’t the narrative that I was hearing. It wasn’t the narrative that my other friends and my conservative Christian circles were

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