Welcome, Friends: Stories of Hope and Hospitality with Immigrants

A participatory conversation with Anton Flores-Maisonet about his book, Welcome, Friends: Stories of Hope and Hospitality with Immigrants. 

Welcome, Friends is a book shaped by open doors, shared meals, late-night tears, and the unshakable belief that love crosses borders.

In these pages, Anton Flores-Maisonet weaves powerful stories of welcoming immigrants – from the grief-soaked silence of detention centers and immigration courts to the everyday grace of a welcome table set for strangers who become friends. With the clarity of a social worker, the tenderness of a father, and the conviction of a faith-rooted activist, Anton invites us into the sacred work of radical hospitality.

These stories are not just about immigrants – they are about all of us: our fears, our hopes, and our shared call to build a more beautiful world, one guest at a time.

This program follows the author’s Cary Memorial Lecture. Reading the book in advance is warmly invited but not expected.  We encourage you to purchase Welcome, Friends on Bookshop.org, and consider selecting “Choose a Bookstore” in the top right corner to choose to support Pendle Hill with your purchase.

Thanks to the generous support of the Friends Foundation for the Aging, we’re able to make this and other free, online programs accessible to f/Friends of all ages.