Texas Border Trip

Please read these articles before we go.

• https://fellowshipsouthwest.org/blog/2021/10/7/to-be-free-of-border-delusions-you-must-know-the-truth
• https://fellowshipsouthwest.org/blog/2021/7/5/looking-at-refugees-but-seeing-jesus

If you can get a copy of this book, please read it (it is no longer in print).

Christians at the Border by M. Daniel Carroll r.

This itinerary is subject to change.

Sunday, March 26

2:00 pm – Leave Woodland
6:00 pm – Check in to hotel
6:30 pm – Dinner at local restaurant in Harlingen

Monday March 27 — McAllen TX

9:00 am – 12 noon – Volunteer at Catholic Charities Respite Center (bring a mask, if you would like to bring toiletry items (hotel size) or shoe laces to donate please feel free to do so)
12 noon – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Visit Mission Levee (Border Wall)
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Visit the Colonias with Puentes de Cristo
6:00 pm – Dinner and debrief

Tuesday March 28 — Harlingen, Texas

9:00 am -11:00 am – Visit the Border Patrol Station
12 noon – 1:00 pm – Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Visit the immigration court
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Visit unaccompanied migrant children shelter with Valley Baptist, Missions and Education Center
7:00 pm – Dinner and debrief

Wednesday, March 29 – Brownsville, Texas

9:00 am – 10:00 am – Visit the Border wall & the Gateway International Bridge
10:00 am-12 noon – Visit Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville’s Respite Center, Brownsville’s Bus Station.
12 noon -1:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm -3:00 pm – TBD
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Volunteer at the Southwest Good Samaritan
6:00 pm – Dinner and debrief

Thursday, March 30

8:00 am – Check out and head to Woodland
12 noon – Arrive at  Woodland