coming UP
Loving Immigrants in Red Hook Area
Rev. Liz Estes, clergy spokesperson for Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and pastor of Old Dutch Church in Kingston will provide an overview of how the latest executive orders and ICE actions may affect our neighbors. We'll review the principles behind the cards and workshops about constitutional rights, share about community support initiatives, and consider how everyone can take one step to help our neighbors in these challenging times. This event will be held in ENGLISH only and will be helpful for ALLIES. There will be no direct support for immigrants.
Loving Our Neighbors ... All of Them!
Father Frank Alagna and Rev. Liz Estes share the keynote address at the Dutchess County Interfaith Council, Annual Membership Meeting.
Please RSVP: office@dutchesscountyinterfaith.org or call 845-471-7333
Refugee Shabbat Service
For this year's Refugee Shabbat, we're pleased to welcome Rev. Elizabeth Estes. Pastor Liz is senior minister of Old Dutch Church of Kingston, NY, where she serves as the clergy spokesperson for Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, a non-profit, mostly volunteer, secular network that has grown organically to support 800 undocumented immigrant families in Ulster County, NY. Her previous work supporting a large, undocumented community in Central New Jersey led to her book, Global Grace Café: A Love Story about Battles Lost and Won to Keep Families Together in America’s War on Immigrants, a primer on immigration policies, laws, and federal tactics that affect people who reside in the US without federal authorization. It is a gripping true story of undocumented Christians who fled persecution in their homeland only to be caught in systems of asylum, detention, and deportation in the United States. With love, purpose, and determination, undocumented people joined with their U.S. citizen neighbors to beat the odds and keep families together. The book can be purchased online on Amazon at https://a.co/d/0RQtAfo. Or you may purchase it in advance for $20 on Venmo @Elizabeth-Estes-20, and Pastor Liz will bring your copy to the event.
Pastor Liz will discuss her personal experience with providing sanctuary, visits to Elizabeth Detention Center, the devastation left behind in the wake of ICE raids, and efforts to build a rapid response team.
Loving Immigrants in 2025 in Woodstock
Rev. Liz Estes, clergy spokesperson for Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and pastor of Old Dutch Church in Kingston will provide an overview of how the latest executive orders and ICE actions may affect our neighbors. We'll review the principles behind the cards and workshops about constitutional rights, share about community support initiatives, and consider how everyone can take one step to help our neighbors in these challenging times. This event will be held in ENGLISH only and will be helpful for ALLIES. There will be no direct support for immigrants.
Loving Immigrants in 2025, Woodland Pond @New Palz
Liz will provide an overview of how 2025 executive orders concerning immigration and ICE policies and practices affect immigrants—she does this with a long view, because today’s actions have their roots in anti-immigrant policies and practices since 9/11/2001, under BOTH administrations. We’ll cover principles behind Know Your Rights, for immigrants and allies. We’ll brainstorm steps everyone can take to help neighbors.
SUNY NEW Paltz Student Union — Know your rights
Student Union organized discussion on undocumented immigration law and how students can protect themselves and their loved ones.
Global Grace Cafe Book Study series
Join Pastor Liz on January 20, February 3, and February 24 for a Global Grace Cafe book study series with Albany Synod!
Brainstorm about steps you can take locally by first joining with friends from around Albany Synod in reading, discussing and learning from Global Grace Cafe: a Love Story About Battles Lost and Won to Keep Families Together in America's War on Immigrants, by theologian and historian Elizabeth Colmant Estes, who is also the pastor of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, NY.
From Amazon: "Global Grace Cafe a gripping, true, 18-year story of undocumented Christians who fled persecution in their homeland only to be caught in systems of asylum, detention, and deportation in the United States.
With love, purpose, and determination, undocumented people joined with their U.S. citizen neighbors to beat the odds and keep families together. This effort required converting one American heart at a time—including author Elizabeth Estes, who admits she wanted nothing to do with immigration at first. This book explains how U.S. immigration both works and doesn’t work for refugees."