“This is the Lord we serve, one who reminds us that God’s hospitality defies our narrow biblical interpretations and legal applications. We serve a God who confronts the powerful, telling them that their laws ignore God’s justice, that their words ignore God’s creation ... because everyone is created in the image of God. So, may we all work together to extend the same compassion, mercy, and justice that Jesus extended as we welcome immigrants and those [who] society pushes aside into our communities. Because it is in these seemingly small acts that God’s kin-dom makes itself visible in the present.”