The Peace and Justice Clinic provides free, professional legal services to immigrants. Photo by - Jeffrey Austin/UMCOR

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Justice for Our Neighbors – Peace and Justice Clinic

Motivated by Christian values of love, justice, and compassion, Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON) serves the vulnerable, low-income immigrants in our communities by helping them to navigate through a very confusing and labyrinthine system.  By engaging volunteers from their congregations and communities to staff their JFON clinics, United Methodist churches are coming alongside their immigrant neighbors and helping them to feel accepted and welcomed.

The Peace and Justice Clinic became the North Carolina Justice For Our Neighbors immigration legal clinic under UMCOR in July 2010.   Throughout the Bible, people of faith are exhorted to show kindness to the strangers in their midst.  In fact, Jesus feels so deeply about such hospitality that he says, to welcome the stranger, is to welcome him.

The monthly clinics, beginning at Matthews UMC, in Matthews, NC, offer us a way to be faithful to that call.  The clinic provides free legal counsel to immigrants in a home-like hospitable atmosphere of caring and welcome.  Although not all immigration problems can be solved through the clinic, the clinic offers truth in a world where others may attempt to deceive and a place where immigrants can trust what they are hearing.

The clinic’s appointment line is 704-815-1947.  Please call for an appointment.  Or, if you’d like, e-mail Trish Pegram, the attorney/deacon for the clinic, at peaceandjusticeclinic@gmail.com with any questions.

If you would like to volunteer with the Peace and Justice Clinic, e-mail Trish.  Everyone is needed, especially interpreters.

Peace and Justice Clinic Contact Information:

You can also support this critical ministry through your donations.  There are two ways to give:

1. Simply place your offering in any United Methodist Church Sunday offering with it noted:  JFON Peace and Justice Clinic
2. You can also mail your donations by sending to:

Peace & Justice Clinic – S00198,
P.O. Box 60053,
Charlotte, NC 28260-0053.

100% of your gift to the Peace and Justice Clinic will be used in this specific JFON ministry.

For the latest articles, updates, opportunities, and announcements for the Peace and Justice Clinic please see JFON P&J Clinic

For many more resources please see our offerings at:  Media Center JFON Resources

If you would like to support the general church ministry that provides the framework for JFON ministries across our nation, you can give to Justice for Our Neighbors, UMCOR  Advance #901285:

By Mail:

Make your check payable to ADVANCE GCFA. Write the name of the ministry and The Advance code number on the check. Send your check to:

Advance GCFA
P.O. Box 9068, GPO
New York, NY 10087-9068

By Phone:

Credit card gifts can be accepted by phone. The telephone number is: (888) 252-6174

On-line:

At:  JFON Advance.

Please read more about JFON and subscribe to the JFON newsletter, First Monday, at First Monday.

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