Worship
Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 10:45am
Address:
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Mackey Hall
353 E. Pine St.
Wooster, OH 44691
Presented By: Brian Hoffman
The Wooster Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Westminster Presbyterian Church highlight issue of family detention with Wooster native and immigration attorney Brian Hoffman as Guest Speaker.
The Wooster Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Westminster Presbyterian Church will be holding a joint worship service on Sunday, May 17 at 10:45 am in Westminster’s Mackey Hall, 353 East Pine Street, Wooster, Ohio focusing on the US/Mexico border crisis, family detention, and how people of faith can respond. The guest speaker will be Wooster native and immigration attorney Brian Hoffman. Hoffman, who graduated from Wooster High School in 2001, practices immigration law in Columbus with the firm of Muchnicki & Bittner, LLP. He has represented immigrants from a variety of countries in asylum proceedings here in the U.S. and has traveled to family detention centers in New Mexico and Texas to help detained immigrant families fight their asylum cases. Hoffman is taking a leave of absence from his firm to spend six months in Texas coordinating a project that provides free legal services to women and children at a family detention center in Dilley, Texas. The families, many of whom are fleeing horrific violence in Central America and parts of Mexico, are applying for asylum in the United States, but often cannot afford legal representation to help them present their cases. Teams of volunteer attorneys have traveled from all over the United States to take cases at the detention center, which can house up to 2,500 people. Hoffman, who earned his law degree from The Ohio State University in 2009, will serve as the full-time coordinator for future teams of volunteers.
The service will begin at 10:45 and will include a shared meal. Donations will be used to help support the pro-bono project at the Dilley Family Detention Center and information will be provided on how to volunteer. While the service takes its inspiration from the Quaker and Presbyterian traditions, this event is open to all as we work together for a more just world.
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