Reclaiming Hospitality: A Church's Guide to Hospitality Houses for Immigrants - Paperback

by Tiffani Cox Harris (Author)

The immigration crisis may be one of the most polarizing challenges of our era. Christians and churches are struggling to understand how to respond amid this crisis. In Reclaiming Hospitality, the author seeks to equip today's church to reclaim biblical hospitality as an essential practice and spiritual discipline for the church. Drawing from Scripture, church history, theology, social work and leadership theories, the author lays out a systematic plan for empowering a congregation to meet and address the immigration crisis of our times. Using one church's experience as an instructive example readers will be inspired and equipped for guiding their church in addressing such a complex issue with grace and the hospitality of Christ.

Author Biography

Tiffani Cox Harris is an associate pastor and spiritual director in Waco, Texas. Part of her ministerial work is to help guide her church's hospitality house for asylum seekers, called the Naomi House. She has an MDiv from Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University and a DMin from Duke Divinity School at Duke University.