Year End Review

It has been awhile since I posted.  That is mostly because it has been an amazing and busy year.  Let me describe some of what we have been doing this past year as an immigration office.

This has been our first full year of operation at James Place Immigration Services.  I want to give God all the glory for allowing us the privilege and blessing of being able to participate in the following:

• Interact with 150+ clients from 25 different countries
• Officially take on 90 Immigration cases
• Have 3 volunteers become official BIA Accredited Representatives
• Log an average of 20 hours of work per application
• Meet with one Congressman and one Senator
• Have a site visit from the Congressman's chief case worker
• Participate when World Relief invited church representatives from all over the nation to an Immigration Training hosted by Elmbrook Church, which included a tour of James Place to see how our Immigration Services function
• Have successfully closed 35 cases
• See a number of new immigrant faces at Elmbrook Church
• Receive referrals from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Milwaukee
• Pray with each client at the close of our meetings
• Trust God on a daily basis for wisdom and discretion and watch him provide

What an amazing first year, and I cannot begin to imagine the blessings God has in store for our wonderful group of volunteer staff as we continue to display the love of Jesus to the nations in our own backyard.

Happy New Year!
Jason