Resilience (World Refugee Day)

-by ACT/Sean Hawkey

As privileged Americans, we too often focus on refugees’ arduous journeys and their suffering. We may worry that they need too much or fear that they are too different from us. While they likely have harrowing migration stories, the fact is that refugees are driven to build new communities—and to give back. 

• Arabic Outreach Center Brings Relief and Hope during Pandemic
• A story from the San Fernando Valley Refugee Children Center
• “Calvary Answers a Knock at the Door”: Calvary Presbyterian Church San Francisco’s Living Sanctuary
• Rev. Victor H. Floyd’s call to sponsorship 
• Home for Refugees Elbow Pound for Friendship
• A Sudanese Refugee’s Story
• Refugees succeed with help from Lansing’s Global Institute of Learning education program 
• Loan Nguyen reflects on two generations of welcome
• Far from the border, a church welcomes the Amiri Family
• Former Refugees Empowered by Resettlement – This 1:42 minute video is an excellent introduction for a class or Minute for Mission