Sen. Sylvia Garcia sponsoring supply drive for border relief

From the InBox:

Senator Sylvia Garcia Asks for Your Help to Raise Supplies for Refugee Relief Efforts The following Items Are Needed (All Items Must be New or Unused): Women’s Walking Shoes (sizes 6-7) Men’s Walking Shoes (sizes 7-9) Children’s Walking Shoes Backpacks Sweaters/hoodies (small/medium sizes for adults and children) Women’s Clothing (sizes 0-8) Women’s Deodorant Sippy Cups and Pedialyte Newborn Nido (zero) formula Hairnets, Soup Bowls Disposable Spoons Chlorox Mops Lysol Large Trash bags Ziploc Bags (various sizes Women’s Bras (32-34 cups, A, B, C) Women’s Cotton Underwear (sizes 7 and under) Children’s Cotton Underwear Drop Off Locations and Times: Senator Garcia’s Polk Office, 5425 Polk Street, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77023 M-F 8:30am-5:30pm Senator Garcia’s East Harris Office, 13301 East Fwy, Suite 304, Houston, Texas 77015 M-F 8:30am-5:30pm Casa De Alabanza Church, 10264 North Freeway, Houston, TX 77037 M-Sat 9am-8pm St. Patrick Catholic Church, 4918 Cochran St, Houston, TX 77009 M-F 9am-6pm Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, 1510 Pannell St, Houston, TX 77020 M-F 9:30am-4:30pm Financial Contributions Can Also Be Made to: Catholic Charities at http://www.cdob.org/catholic-charities135/donate-now Or To The Rio Grande Valley Food Bank at https://foodbankriogrande.ejoinme.org/MyPages/DonationPage/tabid/2309/Default.aspx

And on the opposite end of the political spectrum, Glenn Beck is doing the same thing:

Glenn Beck on Tuesday announced that he will be bringing tractor-trailers full of food, water, teddy bears and soccer balls to McAllen, Texas on July 19 as a way to help care for some of the roughly 60,000 underage refugees who have crossed into America illegally in 2014.

Beck said he will be joined by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and a number of pastors and rabbis.

“Through no fault of their own, they are caught in political crossfire,” Beck said of the children. “And while we continue to put pressure on Washington and change its course of lawlessness, we must also help. It is not either, or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.”

If two polar opposites have the same response to a crisis, it renews my hope for this nation.

James 2:14 Brothers and sisters, it doesn’t make any sense to say you have faith and act in a way that denies that faith. Mere talk never gets you very far, and a commitment to Jesus only in words will not save you. 15 It would be like seeing a brother or sister without any clothes out in the cold and begging for food, and 16 saying, “Shalom, friend, you should get inside where it’s warm and eat something,” but doing nothing about his needs—leaving him cold and alone on the street. What good would your words alone do? 17 The same is true with faith. Without actions, faith is useless. By itself, it’s as good as dead. 18 I know what you’re thinking: “OK, you have faith. And I have actions. Now let’s see your faith without works, and I’ll show you a faith that works.”