JFON-SEMI Staff
Rev. Paul Perez, Regional Coordinator
Rev. Paul Perez is an ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church. In addition to being JFON-SEMI’s Regional Coordinator, he also serves as Deacon and Director of Program Development at Newburg United Methodist Church in Livonia, MI. He is a Michigan native and an alumnus of Michigan State University and Wesley Theological Seminary.
To read Rev. Paul’s monthly blog on Faith and Immigration Click Here
Ellie Levine, Regional Attorney
Ellie Levine has been the Regional Attorney for Justice For Our Neighbors-Southeastern Michigan since June 2010 providing free, high quality legal services to immigrants in Southeastern Michigan. Prior to joining the JFON network, Ellie assisted low-income immigrants through the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Immigration Law Clinic and the former Archdiocese of Detroit Community Immigration Legal Services.
Prior to beginning her legal career Ellie performed volunteer services in the Northern Volta Region of Ghana and interned with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Social Justice Unit in Sydney, Australia.
For more information and updates about immigration law:
Click here to read an article from Ellie Levine, JFON-SEMI Regional Attorney
Joseph Bradley, Volunteer and Communications Coordinator
Joseph Bradley is a missionary of the United Methodist Church serving the General Board of Global Ministries through the Mission Intern program. He was born and raised in North East Texas and has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Houston-Downtown.
Jorge Luna, Immigrant Welcoming Congregations – Justice Discipler
Justice for Our Neighbors – Southeastern Michigan (JFON-SEMI) has been selected to pilot the General Board of Church and Society’s Immigrant Welcoming Congregations (IWC) Program in the Detroit Annual Conference.
The IWC Program will bring together a cohort of 8-10 congregations in a year long process of discerning how they engage in relationship and ministry with immigrant communities in their local area.
JFON-SEMI has selected Jorge Luna to act as Justice Discipler. The Justice Discipler duties are to provide general support and guidance to local United Methodists using the Immigrant Welcoming Congregations model as a journey from mercy ministries to justice for immigrants.
Click Here for Contact Information for Jorge Luna
JFON-SEMI Response
Our clients are served by a professional immigration attorney who remains with their case until relief is granted or all avenues are exhausted. The volunteers who work in the clinics hear the real life stories and see the moral issues of immigration in a much clearer light.
While JFON is part of UMCOR – each region is responsible for raising its own operating funds. If you support the work of JFON Southeastern Michigan is doing for the community, we encourage you to make a donation.
JFON-Southeastern Michigan would like to acknowedge the following foundations and organizations for their support:
- UMC – Detroit Conference Board of Church and Society
- UMC – Detroit Conference Board of Global Ministries
- UMC – Detroit Conference Hispanic Ministries Committee
- UMC – The Urban Alliance
- The United Methodist Union of Greater Detroit
