INSPIRATION & UNDERSTANDING
If the refugee situation is confusing, even frightening, if you find it hard to look at the news and have no idea what to do, these resources can begin to help you see what the local church can do.
- Welcome Boxes and good practice – Welcome refugees to your neighbourhood
- “Let’s Bring Them Here” – Citizen Car parade initiative to ask EU leaders to keep their promises to relocate refugees in Europe
- An update from Church Response For Refugees – Private Sponsorship programme to put in place within your church
- Update from Itzinya – The start-ups’ incubator initiative is looking for partners
- “Show your love for refugees, but respect their privacy” – Zinash’s story – A refugees perspective on how to welcome sensitively
- Kingsley_story_of_a_refugee – A real story of trauma and hope
- 10 myths – 10 myths about refugees
- Justice & Compassion – An overview of why and how to respond to refugees
- Why we care (1 page) – Biblical reasons for caring for refugees
- 5 reasons to act (2 pages) – 5 biblical reasons to act
- Immigration_and_the_moral_status_of_borders – Biblical reflections on migration
- Photo Montage (powerpoint) – refugee photos that can be downloaded and used for presentations
- Pray for/with refugees – Short Film giving a global overview of Refugee HighWay Partnership and The Church’s Biblical mandate to respond
- A story to tell from the Croatian Baptist Aid Team in Greece
- Start-ups’ incubator for refugees “Itzinya”– An initiative in Sweden to facilitate and encourage entrepreneurship