HIDALGO, Texas ( Border Report ) — The well-worn white van owned by West Side Baptist Church has made dozens of trips to South Texas and across the border to Mexico over the past few years.
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On Wednesday, it was filled with red upholstered chairs, donated clothes and toys to be given to migrant shelters and for a children’s ministry that missionaries from that church are starting in the Mexican border town of Reynosa.
Pastor Jim Howard, who has been coming to the border for 35 years, brought three parishioners on the 12-hour drive from his church in Atlanta, Texas, to do missionary work south of the border this week.
For years he has brushed off criticisms about why he helps the asylum-seekers, but admits that lately the outcries are getting louder and louder…