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If your pastor hasn’t had a pay increase in several years, now is the time to make it right

On multiple occasions in the last few weeks, I’ve had conversations with pastor friends who have said in passing, “I’ve not had a salary increase since I got here.” These pastor friends are not bitter, and they weren’t complaining. They…

She is here to love this country, not be a burden. She just needs an opportunity for a better life.

Like so many of the families with whom she shared a field, a song, a smile, Aracely Salazar is here to love this country, to work hard, to help her family thrive and to find peace.

What can we learn about poverty from those who work along the Texas-Mexico border?

Where opportunity for education and employment abounds, the fight against poverty remains spiritual, rooted in the heart.

Hidalgo County, Texas: A Mighty Current

Listen to the stories of the more than 268,000 in Hidalgo County living below their federal poverty threshold and you will learn that the Rio Grande waters are rarely hospitable to newcomers, most of whom must take on the slow, agonizing work of rebuilding life from scratch on the other side.

Photo Gallery: Hidalgo County Texas

All photos taken in this photo gallery are by Lesley-Ann Hix Tommey. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”30″ gal_title=”Texas: Hidalgo County”] Despite the Rio Grande’s unmistakable capacity to both give and strip away life, there is yet a more formidable power in Hidalgo County, Texas,…