Responding to ICE & Protecting Our Communities
Our congregations are called to be places of peace, welcome, and safety for all. Yet, with recent changes to immigration enforcement policies, faith communities are facing new challenges in protecting and accompanying immigrant neighbors.
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) invites you to a special two-hour virtual training designed to help your church understand immigration enforcement, know your legal rights as a faith community, and develop a plan of action in case immigration agents show up at or near your congregation.
Just like we make a fire drill plan for our church, our churches can make an ICE response plan to keep our neighbors safe.
Through this training, participants will:
- Learn what “sensitive locations” are and how immigration enforcement policies have changed.
- Explore how to create a church response plan and understand your rights under the law.
- Learn how community-led Rapid Response Networks operate to support families and document ICE activity.
- Reflect on how our faith calls us to respond with courage, hospitality, and solidarity.
This event will be led by Abraham Díaz Alonso, Immigration Program Coordinator with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Central States, who works across Central States and the U.S.-Mexico border region to equip churches in advocacy, accompaniment, and immigrant protection.
We encourage you and members of your ministry team to attend one of the available sessions. Together, we can prepare our churches to respond with compassion, wisdom, and peace.