What does it mean to seek home, safety, and belonging when the place you call home is no longer secure? This September, The Gospel Project brings together theatre, dance, music, and preaching for a powerful evening exploring immigration, identity, family, and the courage it takes to build a life across borders.

The evening will feature a staged reading of J.D. Rodriguez’s Zero Tolerancia, the story of an immigrant family confronting the terrifying possibility of separation while caring for their 14-year-old son, Danny. The play brings the human realities behind immigration policy into the intimacy of one family’s home.

We will also experience Brown Baby, choreographed by Gabriel Mata in collaboration with the dancers, a vibrant work created with an all-Latino cast that draws upon family rituals, social gatherings, cultural memory, and movement. It is a celebration of ownership, identity, and pride—an embodied assertion of what it means to move through the world in a brown body.

Joshua David Estrada Romero, Founding Artistic Director of Fuse Dance Company, will also contribute an original solo dance work, while musical selections from In the Heights bring its celebration of community, heritage, and belonging to worship.

Lastly, Rev. Dr. Sarah Halverson-Cano will offer a powerful homily inviting us to consider what our faith asks of us when we encounter the stranger, the immigrant, and the neighbor searching for home.

Come together with us for a night of reflection on the deeply human stories behind borders and policies—on what it means to create belonging in a world where so many are still searching for a place to call home.