The Foresee News from the CCCC September 2015

Around the World-Syrian Refugee Crisis

Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, walk towards the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 11, 2014. Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. The Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, has prompted tens of thousands of Yazidis and Christians to flee for their lives during their push to within a 30-minute drive of the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. Picture taken August 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rodi Said (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY SEE RTR43BMZ - RTR426FA

How is World Relief responding to the Syrian refugee crisis?

NOTE: World Relief is the disaster response and relief ministry of the National Association of Evangelicals. The CCCC has a historic and on-going partnership with World Relief. The information provided here was supplied by our ministry partner liaison with the intent to aid CCCC churches who are interested to join World Relief’s response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. (Click here to download a bulletin insert containing this information.)

  1. IN JORDAN: World Relief is helping children and youth who have been separated from their families during the crisis and are in danger of being trafficked. Through our office in Jordan, and in partnership with local organizations and churches, we are providing non-food items (hygiene kits, cooking utensils, bedding/blankets) to displaced Syrian refugee families and their host families.
  2. IN TURKEY: We are in the process of launching an office in Turkey to support its burgeoning population of Syrian refugees.
  3. IN THE UNITED STATES: World Relief is already welcoming Syrian refugees to the United States and will continue to do so, along with the other 8 national refugee resettlement agencies.
  4. IN COLLABORATION with Refugee Council USA, World Relief is advocating to President Obama to increase the United States’ annual refugee admissions goal to include 100,000 Syrians in 2016.
 What can I do?
  1. PRAY: We have developed seven major prayer requests that begin to encompass the vast, often immeasurable needs of this vulnerable group. Click here to download these prayer requests.
  2. GIVE: Please consider donating to help support the work of World Relief as we stand with Syrian Refugees. http://worldrelief.org/disaster-response/syria
  3. SIGN UP tocom – This is a place for you to say: We Welcome Refugees – and get to live out those words. A place for your church, your people, your community, to have a practical, tangible, real way to welcome in the stranger in Christ’s name, a place hosted by World Relief, The Justice Conference, and Ann Voskamp, with more partners to be added soon. (If you are already Welcoming Refugees and would like to partner with us, click on the link below or e-mail welcome@wewelcomerefugees.com.)
  4. REACH OUT to local refugee-serving agencies in your area to see how you can walk alongside newly arrived refugees.  World Relief serves refugees in 25 cities across the United States. If there is no World Relief office near you, find another resettlement agency in this online affiliate directory.
  5. LEARN ABOUT refugees. This story is about Syrian refugees, Ibrahim and Nirgez, and their family’s ongoing journey to safety.
  6. ADVOCATE: Call your Senator and Congressional representatives to tell them you are in support of Syrian resettlement in the U.S., and encourage your church to rally behind the cause and do the same.
  7. SIGN this White House petition for the U.S. to resettle more Syrian refugees: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/authorize-and-resettle-syrian-refugees-us

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