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Find out about our projects, trainings and networks, and what we are doing to equip and support local churches to reach out and welcome refugees into our communities. Together we can change the story.
Watch our Welcome Churches film for Refugee Sunday 2023 to help you to celebrate refugees in your church!
Just like Mary thousands of years before her, Maryam knew that she had to flee now to save her child’s life. Imagine if Mary, Joseph and Jesus hadn’t received a welcome in Egypt. Imagine if Maryam doesn’t receive a welcome today.
We invite you to sing and share this beautiful, prayerful song in your church on Refugee Sunday. This poignant song reflects the struggles and challenges faced by many refugees and invites us to respond with Christ’s love and mercy to those in need of a Welcome.
Our Beyond the Welcome video shares the testimonies of some of our Welcome Network churches and looks at the incredible way they are changing lives. We would love for your church to show this on Refugee Sunday or during Refugee Week to encourage and inspire your church.
This year we are celebrating the incredible contribution that churches are making to welcome refugees as well as the impact that refugees and people seeking asylum are having on the church community that they are joining. Our Beyond the Welcome video shares the testimonies of some of our Welcome Network churches and looks at the incredible way they are changing lives. We would love for your church to show this on Refugee Sunday or during Refugee Week to encourage and inspire your church.
Our multi-lingual, collaborative version of Joy to the World featuring Welcome Network churches from across the UK. Let’s bring Joy to the World this Christmas and help refugees and asylum seekers find their Welcome.
Asghar arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker with no choice but to leave his wife and children behind in his home country. They were together one day and separated the next. Asghar will not get to spend Father’s Day with his children. He doesn’t know when they will get the chance to be together again. Life in the UK is incredibly difficult for Asghar, but by meeting his local church family, he has experienced their love and support, and knows his Heavenly Father’s love in his life too
Join us on 23 June for Refugee Sunday 2024! This year, we'll explore together what "Our Home" truly means for all of us, through stories of refugees, people seeking asylum and Christians who support and welcome them.
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