{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F6f650c6a-09e8-4357-ac5c-f1806e78df1d","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Miracle for Maddeline","description":"Meet Maddeline and Daris Bartolon \u2014 immigrants who got the miracle they prayed for, thanks to a community who decided they would be strangers no longer.\r\n\n\nShow notes:\r\n\n\n(0:09) We meet Maddeline Lopez Bartolon, a 15-year-old choir member and parishioner at St. Gabriel in Detroit, who lives with a genetic condition called rickets.\r\n\n\n(1:40) We learn about the Bartolon\u2019s home in San Marcos, Guatemala, and the urgency of their need to come to the United States for Maddeline\u2019s medical treatment.\r\n\n\n(3:58) Kevin Piecuch, Executive Director at Southwest Detroit Immigration and Refugee Center, talks about some of the obstacles that face individuals and families trying to emigrate to the United States \u2014 and how long that can take.\r\n\n\n(7:06) Enter: Strangers No Longer. We learn about the organization\u2019s goal to support immigrants and refugees, and how they rallied around Maddeline and Daris to help them remain in the United States at least long enough to complete Maddeline\u2019s treatment.\r\n\n\n(11:03) Daris talks about the experience of receiving the deportation order and how at a loss she was for how to take care of Maddeline. Kevin then comes on board to make the Bartolons\u2019 case to ICE.\r\n\n\n(14:35) Irma, Kevin, and other Strangers No Longer members made calls, wrote letters, and advocated on behalf of Daris and Maddeline to postpone their deportation and win a humanitarian parole for them.\r\n\n\n(16:59) Irma reflects on the moment they learned about the stay of deportation and what it meant for Maddeline and Daris. Kevin reflects on the change that a godly group of people can make when we raise our voices for a just cause.\r\n\n\nLinks from this episode:\r\n\n\nhttps://detimmigrantcenter.com/ (Southwest Detroit Immigration and Refugee Center)\r\n\n\nhttps://strangersnolonger.org/ (Strangers No Longer)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/1e413ffe-5533-4592-ab56-30fefaaa422c/QTqoAh_AWVjRHIuQx04qaU_N.jpg"}