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UMCOR Refugee/Immigrants Resources
Find information on refugees, migrants, and displaced people, and the work of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) of the General Board of Global Ministries.
Key Resources
- Advance Special Projects: Refugee/Justice 2001-2004
A list of UMCOR projects and their Advance Special Numbers- Justice for Our Neighbors: A GBGM Immigration Response
The General Board of Global Ministries initiated a new program in 1999 designed to assist United Methodist congregations interested in providing immigration counseling to refugees, immigrants, undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. Here is how you can participate.- World Refugee Day, June 20 every year
- UMCOR Office of Refugee Concerns
The plight of people driven from their homelands by violence, oppression, and natural disaster presents a compelling challenge to United Methodists. Deeply concerned about this human suffering, UMCOR serves the church as its agency of refugee service.- UMCOR Refugees Packet
Advance projects information, Background material for churches, and stories about churches and refugees. - Justice for Our Neighbors: A GBGM Immigration Response
Stories
New World Outlook Magazine
- New World Outlook: Refugees and Migration (March-April 1998)
This special issue is designed to be used with the 1998-99 Ecumenical Mission Study on Refugees and Global Migration. New World Outlook examines the conditions that create refugees, refugees' stories, and the kinds of actions that United Methodists can take to help these special sojourners in our world. See information and lots of pictures from this issue online. - Strangers in Our Midst: The Good Samaritan Today, an article and photos by Lilia Fernandez
- Ecumenical Year for Churches in Solidarity with the Uprooted, an article and photos
Response Magazine
- Uprooted Refugees and Global Migration by Elizabeth G. Ferris
- Haitian Refugees The Last in Line by Lilia Fernandez
- Resettling in a New Land by A. Victoria Hunter
Worship and Biblical Resources
- Jesu tawa pano (Jesus, we are here) A Hymn from Zimbabwe
- Immigrants and Refugees: To Love the Sojourner, A resolution of The United Methodist Church with Biblical bases
- Worship Materials for a Service for World Refugee Day
Celebrate solidarity with uprooted people in a worship service.
How to Participate in This Program
Your donation to UMCOR's Global Refugee Response Advance #982540 may be sent through a local United Methodist church, Annual Conference or by mailing the check directly to: UMCOR, Room #330, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115. For credit card donations, call 800-554-8583. Please specify the Advance number. One hundred percent of your gift goes to helping people in the designated response. You can also make a donation online. Click here to make a secure online gift.