Wednesday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Burke Auditorium
The King’s Honors Program proudly presents the annual Grimes Lecture, the title of which this year is “An Evening with Sister Normal Pimentel: Migration, Asylum, and Life at the Southern Border.”
Sister Pimentel has over twenty years of experience in providing oversight to a diverse set of ministries and social services in the Rio Grande Valley such as homeless prevention, disaster relief, clinical counseling, pregnancy care, food assistance, and humanitarian relief to immigrants. In 2014, during the influx of immigrants entering the United States through the Southern Border, Sister Pimentel, with the support of the local community, established the Humanitarian Respite Center, providing a safe space for immigrants to rest before continuing their journey to other parts of the United States. Ten years later, the Humanitarian Respite Center has become the largest respite center in our country, welcoming over half a million immigrants in the course of ten years.
Sister will speak to us about her ongoing ministries as well as how her work has shifted in light of changing federal policies on immigration enforcement.
