Strangers no more… Beloved… Blessed
"I have called you by name; you are mine." -Isaiah 43:1
Sister Mary Elaine Anderson, IHM
Sister Mary Elaine currently serves as the director of candidates and novices for the IHM Congregation. She is a member of the OSP-IHM core community in McAllen, Texas, an inter-congregational initiative that accompanies asylum seekers on the US-Mexico border.
Thank you! ¡Gracias! Mèsi!
The OSP-IHM Core Community at the US-Mexico border would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our sisters and associates who attended the presentation on February 13 via zoom or livestream.
Welcome, Carmen, to McAllen, Texas!
Sister Carmen, who is one of the four members of the OSP-IHM Core Community at the US-Mexico border, arrived on January 11.
Welcoming and accompanying migrants
How are we OSP-IHM sisters, associates and friends responding to the plight of migrants from our own backyard?
Ministry at the Border update December 2022: Serving the Haitian population
“Bondye beni yo! Bondye beni nou! (God bless them! God bless us!)”
IHM Leaders Visit the OSP-IHM Border Community
“We come together here in this moment of our OSP/IHM history to ask for the blessing of God upon our response to the refugee crisis at the Texas/Mexican border.”
God’s “Temple of Humanity” at the US-Mexico Border
Asylum seekers depend on the compassionate care of people who believe that God resides in the “Temple of Humanity” and who do not turn a blind eye to their brothers and sisters’ angst and suffering.
Ministry at the Border update September 2022
It seems right, and even providential, that in following Theresa Maxis’s urging to “go where the need is” that we find ourselves face to face with our Haitian brothers and sisters.
Ministry at the Border: An invitation from God
I believe that the plight of our brothers and sisters at the US-Mexico border is one of those invitations from God that IHMs would find difficult to ignore.
Spirit of Ubuntu: A Measure of Our World’s Emotional Wellness
I believe that the situation at our US-Mexico border is an invitation to put into practice our spirit of ubuntu and give witness to the emotional wellness of our society. It takes great courage and deep faith for families to leave their homes and loved ones to cross the border (wall, river or desert).