10:00 am,
Friday,
October 21, 2011
Church-Chapel
Chapel - "My Story of Faith & Immigration," Jaqueline Salamanca
"Migration has always been present in my life: my father left town when i was 4 years old and never returned. My mother left me and my brother with my grandparents to search for him, but never heard from him again." After studying social psychology and later a Master's Degree in social sciences, she joined the Jesuit Service to Migrants and began to see migration in a new light: "I read books, studies, and articles about migration and ended up reading my own story: i am the daughter of migrants and bear the marks and emotional costs that are left by my father's absence; i am a witness to the unfinished story my mother began to live as the wife of a migrant." Her work has allowed her to "gain the tools to reconstruct myself as a girl, as a young woman, and as a woman, to understand the loneliness my mother lived through. In community work I have been able to revalue and accept the challenges that migration has placed on my path."
Contact: Bob Yoder, campus pastor, phone 7542, email robertey@goshen.edu