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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
This month a small group of Hispanic and Anglo Christians traveled from Florida to Arizona to pray for immigration reform.
While many Christians are arguing about Arizona's strict immigration law, charismatic pastor Nebby Gomez decided to do something about it. He and his wife, Dee, traveled from Florida to Arizona in early July with three members of their church to address what they believe are the spiritual roots of the crisis.
They prayed on the lawn of Arizona's capitol in Phoenix, where lawmakers passed the controversial SB1070 bill in April of this year amid national protests. Gomez and his friends also prayed on the site of Arizona's oldest Spanish mission near Tucson and on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales.
| "We don't want lawlessness. But Jesus said the most important thing about law is love and justice. This Arizona law is about racism and hatred." ---Rev. Nebby Gomez |
They didn't lobby any congressmen, carry any signs or appear on local newscasts. They simply talked to the Lord, blew a Hebrew shofar, poured oil on the ground and made prayerful declarations.
"We are not political activists. The answer to this problem is not political," says Gomez, a former architect who immigrated to the United States from Ecuador in 1994 to be a missionary to this country.
Years ago Gomez began researching the history of Hispanics, and he focused his attention on the Spanish Inquisition of the 16th century, during which Catholic leaders and Spanish monarchs killed thousands of Jews or forced them to convert. The pastor believes that the violence against Jews brought a curse upon Spanish territories that resulted in 500 years of exploitation, corruption and poverty in Latin America.
"All land that was once Spanish territory came under this curse because of the bloodshed," says Gomez. "The Lord called us to go there and pray, and to ask Him to break the curse and heal the land in the name of Jesus."
Scott Wood, an Anglo member of Gomez's Abba Worldwide Ministries in the Orlando area, said he went on the trip partly because he believes the Arizona law is unjust. He cited one highly-reported incident in which a man of Mexican descent was jailed in Phoenix this year after police pulled his car over and demanded to see his birth certificate. The man was a legal citizen of the United States.
"This [law] is racial profiling. It's just like Nazi Germany," Wood says.
Four years ago Gomez launched The Esther Revolution, a prayer and fasting campaign that mobilizes people to address the spiritual impact of the Spanish Inquisition in Latin countries. In 2009 he took a team to Granada, Spain, where Queen Isabela in 1492 called for mass persecution of Jews. Gomez and his group prayed in Granada, then later took teams to pray in Lima, Peru, and Cartagena, Colombia.
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