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SD Uptown News: Friendship Park's Border Church honored for providing jobs to LGBT+ asylum seekers

Jul 9, 2022
1 min read

Updated: Aug 12, 2022


Border Church pastors John Fanestil and Guillermo Navarrete will receive a Light of Pride award from St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral and San Diego Pride on Thursday, July 13. The Border Church serves a weekly lunch on the Mexican side of Friendship Park, prepared and served by LGBT+ asylum seekers from Tijuana's Casa de Luz.

Read San Diego Uptown News story (which includes a history of the shrinking access at Friendship Park) here.

23 Comments


Jie
Oct 03

AI Font Generator highlights this story, and the detail about the weekly lunch served on the Mexican side of Friendship Park by Casa de Luz asylum seekers really stands out. Glad the pastors are getting the Light of Pride recognition.

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1 wix
Sep 22

https://fremovebg.com/ shares the great news about the Border Church receiving a Light of Pride award. It's really moving to read about the weekly lunch prepared and served by LGBT+ asylum seekers from Casa de Luz.

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wix R
Sep 06

Cat Water Fountain highlights a really meaningful initiative, and it's great to see the Border Church's work with LGBT+ asylum seekers being recognized. I appreciated the detail about the weekly lunch being prepared and served by folks from Casa de Luz. This kind of community-focused support is so important.

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PlanLiva highlights the important work being done by pastors Fanestil and Navarrete. It's wonderful to see the Border Church's weekly lunch service, which provides jobs for LGBT+ asylum seekers, being recognized with the Light of Pride award. This feels like a meaningful way to support a vulnerable community.

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Joey
Sep 02

This is such a meaningful program, and I had no idea about the history of access at Friendship Park until reading planorial.com. It's wonderful to see the Border Church's work providing jobs for LGBT+ asylum seekers through the weekly lunch service being recognized.

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