Our Mission Partners

Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and God's love is perfected in us.

(1 John 4:11-12)

In the community and the world....

Over the course of the year we work with our partners, walking with our neighbors in life, in service, and in love.

Border Encounter

This summer, we will once again be working with our mission partners the Tres Rios Border Foundation and Abara to engage with the realities of life in the borderlands by doing a "Border Encounter" during the final week of June. For three days we will learn facts and statistics surrounding migration, speak with experts in the field, and visit locations on both sides of the border to see what is truly happening in our community. Click below for more information or to sign up today!

June 23 -25

More about Border Encounters

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Tres Rios Border Foundation

Partnering with Abara, this foundation of our Presbytery works to ensure the honest narratives surrounding immigration, migration, and refugees are heard, those who want to learn more have the opportunity to do so, and encourage all to walk with those who are already hard at work along our border with Mexico.

Project Vida

Located three blocks north of the Rio Grande border with Mexico, Project Vida is a para-church organization that builds affordable low-income rental housing, provides high quality, low cost healthcare, creates homelessness prevention and recovery programs, develops and provides early-childhood education program, offers dynamic after-school enrichment, and provides micro-enterprise technical assistance and support.

Be sure to check out more about the #OutofSchool Gallery at Grace here!

More Light Presbyterians

More Light Presbyterians is a non-profit organization dedicated to allowing the full participation of LGBTQIA+ people in the life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and in society. Our church chooses to partner with this organization because no matter where you come from, no matter who you are, no matter how God made you - you are welcome here and you are loved.

YWCA Transitional Living Center

The El Paso del Norte Sara McKnight Transitional Living Center provides a bridge to successful independence for women who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, especially for survivors of domestic, sexual, or other forms of violence. There they can find case management, counseling, financial empowerment services, job search assistance, and educational opportunities, while building self-esteem, self-respect, and respect for others.

Prison Fellowship

Each year, our church partners with local prisons to support the families of local prisoners with encouragement and love. Our partnership serves to strengthen the relationships between those parents who are in prison and their children and to support their families as a whole with hope.

Katie's Food Pantry

In collaboration with our Lutheran siblings, we partner with our ELCA friends down the road for larger distribution efforts.

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Abara

Abara works on both sides of the wall to build authentic relationships in the borderlands. They work to transform fear and division into understanding and peace-building by cultivating spaces for reflection, action and partnership that honor dignity and foster hope. We partner with them to ensure the shelters in Juarez that ensure the safety of our migrant neighbors have what they need.

Las Americas

Founded in 1987 by the co-founders of Annunciation House, Las Americas has served over 50,000 people from over 77 countries, advocating for a robust asylum system and seeking systemic change to U.S. immigration policy and practices, while also working to reunify separated families.

Many Hands Projects

Throughout the year, we have a "Little Food Pantry" and "Little Library" housed on Grace's campus that are open 24-7.