REFUGEE Relief

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Direct Support for Refugees through Partner Organizations

For those in closer proximity to the Fox Valley, good neighbor teams are forming through World Relief Fox Valley. Two orientation meetings are planned for January. For those outside of the Fox Valley, more information on direct support is being gathered and curated to share in the new year. Financial and in kind gifts can be made directly to the relief organization in your area.

  • Please visit this google folder for resources including:

    • A Statement on Culture and Accompaniment from the ELCA

    • A statement on Accompaniment from the ELCA

    • AMMPARO - Words create Worlds

    • How to Talk to your family about Refugees and Asylum Seekers

    • Five questions to ask when crafting messages about refugees in the current Climate

    • How to Cover Refugee Stories (with a media focus)

  • Through World Relief, donations are being gathered for those arriving. Please contact World Relief Fox Valley directly.

    Download needs List - Housing Refugees

On the more basic congregational involvement level, my guiding idea with this was to make sure we were aligned with the relief organization that is overseeing things in our area. Let the experts be the experts and just try to funnel our help to them. So on the congregational level it meant putting together a care team (or teams, if we had enough people) that would work within their program and under their authority. We’re not in charge. We’re not biting off more than we can handle. We’re not committing the congregation to a future that will be unstainable when initial interest starts to wear off. But we are promoting the need, providing a workable game plan to help, and through that have inspired some folks here to get involved, people who would not otherwise have done so. So we are making something happen that would not have otherwise happened.
— Pastor in Green Bay working with Catholic Charities