Abide in Love

Our work has been rooted in direct, human care: providing detainees with personal care packages, helping cover commissary costs, and ensuring access to phone communication so individuals can remain connected to their families and legal support while in detention.

501(c)(3) Charity: Abide in Love is a501(c)(3) organized in Rolla, Missouri in May 2025.
We work to support immigrants in Phelps County and beyond.

  • Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil. It is aggressive spiritually, mentally and emotionally.

    Principle 1
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence

  • Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding. The result of nonviolence is redemption and reconciliation. The purpose of nonviolence is the creation of the Beloved Community.

    Principle 2
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence

  • Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Nonviolence recognises that evildoers are also victims and are not evil people. The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat evil, not people.

    Principle 3
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence

  • Nonviolence holds that suffering can educate and transform. Nonviolence accepts suffering without retaliation. Unearned suffering is redemptive and has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities.

    Principle 4
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence

  • Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate. Nonviolence resists violence of the spirit as well as the body. Nonviolent love is spontaneous, unmotivated, unselfish and creative.

    Principle 5
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence

  • Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice. The nonviolent resister has deep faith that justice will eventually win. Nonviolence believes that God is a God of justice.

    Principle 6
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Principles of Nonviolence