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KINGSPORT — As immigration continues to be a hot topic across the nation, First Broad Street United Methodist Church wants to join the conversation. Later this month, the church will hold its first ever information session on immigration, called “Heart of a Sojourner: We Are All Immigrants.” Michael Eastridge, immigration attorney for Hunter, Smith & Davis, will provide facts about the immigration process and explain commonly used terms like “asylum,” “refugee” and “green card.” “We always want to be promoting that church is a place where people of different perspectives can find some common ground and how to have disagreements, even while loving and remaining in unity together,” said Nathan Flora, executive director of First Broad Street.