Refugees Resettlement Packet

Table of Contents

• Advance Special Projects: Refugee/Justice
  A list of UMCOR projects and their Advance Special Numbers for 2001-2004
• A Call to Care: Welcoming African Refugees
  Information about resources you can order about African refugees
• Churches Reach Out to Refugees through UMCOR: Stories about refugees who have been assisted by United Methodists
  • A Closer Look... at Sudanese Refugee Resettlement, UMCOR Inasmuch Update, Spring 2001
  • The Brown Family from Liberia
  • The George Family from Sierra Leone
  • The Habul Family from Bosnia
  • "I was a stranger and you visited me" (Matthew 25:31-46)
  • What One Church Can Do in Mission with Refugees (Newark UMC in Delaware)
• Immigrants and Refugees: To Love the Sojourner
  A resolution of The United Methodist Church with Biblical bases
• Refugee Resettlement Program
  The Refugee Resettlement Program is the most complex part of UMCOR's overall ministry for refugee and asylum seekers. It provides what may be the most meaningful mission experience at home in the U.S. for a congregation.
• Refugee Sponsorship in the United States for United Methodist Congregations
  Assisting refugees to begin their new life in the United States can be rewarding for all involved. Many United Methodist churches have attested to the difference that assisting a refugee family has made for both refugees and the sponsoring church, which often finds itself spiritually renewed and with new energy for mission.
• A Survey of Refugees Developments Around the World
  A basic introduction to the situation of refugees around the world and how you can help through UMCOR