{"id":8372,"date":"2021-09-21T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2021-09-21T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:19:15","slug":"celebrating-hispanic-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/2021\/09\/celebrating-hispanic-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/609909462?app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Cortes, chair of Conference Hispanic-Latinx Ministries and Mahali Frias Ponce join Bishop Fairley to share their experiences with Hispanic-Latinx ministries in our conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Bishop Fairley<\/strong>:<br>Brothers\u00a0and\u00a0sisters in Christ, I greet you in His name and I am grateful for the honor to be here with you as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. I&#8217;m so grateful to have the\u00a0chairperson of our\u00a0ministry here in North\u00a0Carolina and at this moment, I&#8217;m going to ask Sara if you will share with us.<br><br><strong>Sara Cortes<\/strong>:<br>Yes, we are really proud of our pastors across the Conference who collaborate with vaccination efforts, food pantries, after-school programs, and ESL classes. That&#8217;s on top of all of our Sunday services and Sunday School classes and they share a lot with the community and they make an extraordinary effort with immigrant communities. I also want to invite you to listen to the story of Mahali. I&#8217;ve known Mahali since she was a child and I&#8217;m really proud of her, but she will tell us a little bit about her story of faith and growth.<br><br><strong>Mahali Frias Ponce<\/strong>:<br>Growing up undocumented was a struggle for me because I wasn&#8217;t sure who I could tell about my status and I was afraid about people finding out that I was undocumented and getting in trouble with the police for some reason. This weighed on my heart a lot, but thankfully, the church was a big support for me as I was growing up. They gave me support and they were interested in me and\u00a0my story. When I started applying for college, they always wanted to know how it was going and how they could help. And then when I finally got approved for DACA and I got accepted at Meredith College, everybody was really excited for me and so it was a turning point in my life. I felt more confident about who I am as a person, about my faith, and I felt really supported by the church. Now I&#8217;m a senior at Meredith College and I&#8217;m getting ready to finish up, so after graduating, I want to find a job where I am able to give back. Hopefully, I will work for a social justice organization and I want to be a source of motivation for students or any undocumented person who is going through challenges and doesn&#8217;t see a way out of things. I really believe that sharing my story, as well as other people&#8217;s story, is important so that people know that we are more than just statistics. That we are real people and we have real lives and emotions and everything. 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