• Cassandra Sexton
  • Cassandra Sexton

2024 WAW Immersion Trip

2024 Disciples Women Ministries Women’s Action Web Southern Boarder Immersion Trip. A fact finding mission trip exploring themes of justice, doctrine of discovery, and immigration. Read more
  • Trip start
    April 28, 2024
  • Offical Arrival Day

    April 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 22 °C

    Today is get to know one another, meet our guide/friend/boots on the ground/pastor Pedro for the week. No photos but some delicious food and great conversations getting to know one another. Tomorrow is a full day I am sure there will be lots of pictures. A final thought for the night though is there is lots of opportunity for growth.Read more

  • National Park

    April 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    With a National Park here what does this mean about our history? A priest rides into town with a cross-submit or die. And we placed a national park here.

  • Nogales AZ& MEX

    April 29, 2024 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Boarder town that literally the boarder has crossed. Lives changed, lives lost, lives broken for people- the people of Nogales, Boarder Patrol agents, and all those hoping to cross the boarder for their lives (school, work, living).Read more

  • Mile Marker 38

    May 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    The middle of the desert near the water wash from the rainy season and the remains of two unknown migrants have been found. Crosses mark the place but no name, no identity, of those hoping to making it to the US. They made it 38 miles before they laid down their life. Definitely not the American dream that was hoped for….Read more

  • Capitalism at its finest?

    May 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    The wall cost $24 million dollars per mile. It prevents wildlife from doing its thing and it only slows down a person by 20 seconds. The rainy season means that sections of the wall come down and have to be replaced. It’s a continual problem. We have built 700 miles of wall. What could we have better spent $16 Billion (and still rising) ?Read more

  • Unexpected Immersion

    May 3, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    Almost home, but the journey of immersion continues. While standing in line to purchase dinner, I noticed a mom, with two kids, a death grip on the youngest child and the other on her folder of paperwork from being processed at the border. She walked up to the mom/kid behind me and asked “español?” And my heart broke when the answer was no. My basic Spanish came out to help her, she needed directions to gate and then I noticed the departure time being in 10 minutes. There was no way they were making that flight. American closed doors normally 15 min to departure. The took off in the direction I explained. Hopefully I’m wrong about American and they make it. I didn’t even look to see where their final destination is. But hopefully they have support where they are headed and that they arrive tonight, safe and together. Life is still hard, even when you aren’t in the physical shadow of the wall anymore.Read more

    Trip end
    May 3, 2024