Sister Kristine Vorenkamp

Kristine Vorenkamp

Sister Kristine Vorenkamp has been a religious for over 50 years.  As a Sister of the Living Word, she taught elementary school and ministered in parish ministry in West Texas, IL, and MS. She ministered as part of the Congregational Leadership for her community for ten years. During the last thirty years, she has focused her ministry with our immigrant brothers and sisters in the Rio Grande Valley, TX, with the sweet potato field workers in MS, and with the Pastoral Migratoria and detention pastoral care ministry in northern IL. Presently, she is ministering as an Accredited Representative in Des Plaines, IL.

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Walking with migrants as a Department of Justice accredited representative

Considering the changes in our world, the call to embrace and welcome is the call to love, not hate. As the Trump administration forms and the "Border Czar" advances his Draconian plans for mass deportation, anyone with a conscience can see the devastating outcome of treating our neighbors this way.