Kara Moseby is a stay‑at‑home mom who volunteers in her community. Through her church, she met a young man who discovered in junior high that he didn’t have the documentation he needed for school.

This realization led him to internalize the harsh messages he heard about undocumented people — until Christ restored his sense of identity. His story, and many others like it, shows how undocumented individuals — including many followers of Christ — long to “come into the light.”

Kara believes the Church has a vital role to play: offering safety and welcome while advocating for policies that uphold safety, the rule of law, and human dignity.

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This video is part of the “This Is My Immigrant Neighbor” series, which invites us to see immigration not as an issue, but as a human story.

Video Transcript:

My name is Kara, and I’m a stay‑at‑home mom, homeschool mom, and I volunteer in our community. Our family has been volunteering for about 10 years to welcome refugees. As we started doing that, we started learning about immigrants in Scripture. I like to say immigration is the story of God’s people, because if you look from Adam and Eve, you see brokenness enter the world and migration enters the world, which is so many immigrant stories where brokenness in the world has forced them to flee their original homes.

I love the story of Ruth and Naomi and Boaz. He just obeyed God, and it had massive implications for the rest of history. The quartet of the vulnerable that I’ve heard used — the poor, the widow, the orphan, the immigrant — just serving them, loving them, obeying Scripture when it comes to who they are. It impacts the whole world. It impacts generations from what we’ve seen with Ruth and Naomi and Boaz.

So I met my friend through a prayer meeting at church. Our pastor said, “Kara, you got to meet, you got to meet this guy. You got to hear what God’s done in his life.” I just sat there dumbfounded. All these miraculous ways that the Lord had moved in his life. It was junior high, high school, when he realized he needed some paperwork for school, and his parents didn’t have it.

The heartbreaking part of the story for me is as he started realizing that, then he starts internalizing what he’s hearing in the world about undocumented people. And as a young man, he internalized those and started bringing those into who he was. And I know for him, it’s been a long road of freedom in Christ to know, “That’s not who God has created me to be. This is who I am.”

He’s gotten to teach at church, and everybody just is blown away by how he’s able to express Scripture and teach. We’ve got to give people a way to come into the light. I’ve heard pastors say this over and over, that their undocumented congregants want to come into the light. They want to be right with the government. They know that lines up with their faith, that they should do that, but there just isn’t a way. And now there’s just so much fear around that.

Let’s figure out a way. We can have secure borders. We can be safe, but also welcoming. The church can even push who we know God wants us to be and how he wants us to welcome. We can share that with our representatives and help encourage them in that pathway.