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Mexico border trips
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After you return
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Mexico border trips
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After you return
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After
you return home
"what's next?"
If you are associated with a student group, civic organization, labor union, church group or other organization, it would be wise to try to get them to make an emotional investment in your trip before you come. A few suggestions might be to ask if you could be commissioned by your group to go in their name during a service before the trip, to ask the organization for financial support, or to have a send-off dinner or pot luck supper. You should also begin planning opportunities to tell people about your trip, or to study the issues after you return home. Again, some suggestions are to plan a moment for mission during an upcoming service, an educational series or a series of Bible studies examining these issues, a mission dinner with the issues you've studied as the topic, presentations to various committees, or the formation of a small group of interested people into some kind of an action committee. There are also many possibilities for speaking or writing in the community. It's often possible to speak before Rotary Clubs, Lions' Clubs or other civic organizations. It may be that there are local newspapers that would be interested in some aspect of your trip. We would encourage you to be as creative as possible in developing ways to educate people and raise awareness of the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border and how issues at play on the border affect and relate to their home communities. Finally, through you and others like you, we hope to create a network of concerned and educated people responding to the challenges of living in a global society. We believe not only that we have a responsibility to address the needs of poor and marginalized people in our world, but also that we will be enriched immeasurably in the process. We invite you to start thinking now of this trip not as a single experience, but as the beginning or the continuation of a process that will go on in some active way when you return home. Call us at 520-628-8263 or email program@borderlinks.org BorderLinks is a bi-national education and service organization. We have not-for-profit status in the US and Mexico. © 1987-2002 BorderLinks. All rights reserved. |
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