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Who’s Left to Help Migrants?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The migrant crisis has come to Denver. With no federal help on the way and temperatures dropping well below freezing, a local church tries to pick up the slack. 


Guest: Keith Reeser, pastor at Denver Friends Church in Colorado.


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The story of how Pastor Keith Reiser ended up with 29 strangers living in the basement of his Denver church, begins with a crate of bananas and one very determined parishioner.

1:30.0

The parishioner came first.

1:32.0

This was in October. She had stumbled onto a migrant encampment,

1:37.0

four hundred-tenths thick.

1:39.3

And then she came and met me that day and said, Keith, we've got to do something what these people are

1:44.6

experiencing this is insane.

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Pastor Keith had never seen one of these encampments himself but But he was familiar with the headlines.

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