Refugees Vignettes:
UMCOR Church Bulletin Insert

This bulletin insert/brochure includes stories of two refugee families who were helped by United Methodist congregations, facts about refugees, and ideas for action. Please use it in conjunction with World Refugee Day on June 20 or another time of your choosing. This document has two 8 1/2" x 11" "landscape style" pages designed to be printed back-to-back. When folded, it will be four pages long and fit inside a standard-size church bulletin. For more information, visit UMCOR's Refugees unit page.

Refugees: Vignettes and Action Ideas
Two formats this full color resource are available, Adobe PDF and Microsoft WORD:

• PDF, both pages (600K)
• WORD, Pages 1 and 4 (1000K)
  Lead paragraph: Thanks to members of the First United Methodist Church in Delmar, NY, Darko Knezevic will soon join the US Olympic soccer training team.
• WORD Pages 2 and 3 (1200K)
  Lead paragraph: From a refugee camp in Kenya to Dallas, TX, a Somali Bantu family resettled with the help of 30 United Methodist churches.

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See also

• UMCOR Resource: Celebrate World Refugee Day, June 20.
• World Refugee Day 2005 Bulletin Inserts.
• Worship Service for World Refugee Day: For the Healing of the Nations.