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My chief concern with the decimation of the US refugee resettlement program is the harm done to refugees
But the harm to the network of mostly-faith-based resettlement ministries is also very real—& personal
This is a fitting eulogy to @WRAtlanta https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/october/clarkston-ga-refugee-resettlement-cuts-trump-election.html
But the harm to the network of mostly-faith-based resettlement ministries is also very real—& personal
This is a fitting eulogy to @WRAtlanta https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/october/clarkston-ga-refugee-resettlement-cuts-trump-election.html
The legacy of @WorldRelief in Atlanta continues—in the vibrant refugee community in Clarkston, in various local churches, in scores of former staff—but it’s heartbreaking that, as a direct result of federal policy changes, the ministry that has been there since 1979 is no longer
Similar stories could be written about World Relief offices in Boise, Columbus, Miami, Nashville, Jacksonville & Anne Arundel that have closed since 2017. And the other eight national refugee resettlement agencies have had to downsize at a similar scale
I pray our nation returns quickly to being a country that offers refuge to the persecuted on a scale at least like what the US has done from the mid-1970s through 2017
But it will be a ton of work to rebuild the infrastructure, built over 40 years, that’s been lost in the past 3
But it will be a ton of work to rebuild the infrastructure, built over 40 years, that’s been lost in the past 3
The remaining @worldrelief network in the US had held on, in significant part, because as the public funds associated with the resettlement program’s public-private partnership have dropped dramatically, churches & individuals stepped up
Join them at http://worldrelief.org/thepath
Join them at http://worldrelief.org/thepath
