166: Karen Gonzalez and the God Who Sees

Karen Gonzalez is a native of Guatemala and is a speaker, writer and immigrant advocate. Karen works for World Relief and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. Her first book is The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong. Today, Karen shares what it is like moving to a new country, how Christians can help immigrants, and what the Bible really says about how immigrants should be treated. While immigration is a political hot potato of a topic, Karen helps us take a fresh look at those around us and see them with God’s eyes.

Listen to Karen’s story now!

Stories Karen shared:

• Growing up in Guatemala in a Roman Catholic home
• Always being interested in faith and seeing different ways of interacting with God
• Leaving Guatemala due to war
• The difficulties of integrating into life in the United States
• Going to church with her grandmother and giving her life to Christ
• How to handle undocumented people in a Christian way
• Moving to Florida after receiving Green Cards
• Losing her mother to cancer
• The tug and pull between the two cultures she found herself in
• Discipleship as a college student
• Questioning things like the death penalty
• Discovering that the Gospel doesn’t “work” everywhere
• Going to seminary to get a more robust
• Why she wrote the God Who Sees using immigration stories

Great quotes from Karen:

Migration is a really traumatic experience.

What’s morally right and the right thing to do as a Christian is often at odds with the right thing to do as a U.S. citizen.

Seminary saved my faith.

Nobody’s faith is static.

Resources we mentioned:

• The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong
• Karen’s website
• When Life and Beliefs Collide by Caroline James

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