Healing the Wounds of the Displaced

This book invites readers into a new model of ministry on the margins. Zamora brings lived experience and a pastoral heart to bear in this unique window into the stress, trauma -- and gifts -- of undocumented immigrant communities. He integrates theology, psychology, and practical approaches to develop a new ecclesiology for the immigrant church.

Francisco Zamora Avila is a bivocational pastor and the founder of Modus Church in Montebello, California. He lived more than half his life as an undocumented immigrant after coming to the United States at the age of fifteen. Zamora has served in ministry since 2000 and holds a graduate degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. In addition to his call as a pastor, Zamora works as an operations manager for a multimillion-dollar company in Santa Fe Springs, California.