Refugee toolkit

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Resources

“Hospitality and Hope: resources for worship, learning and action” – An MCC package for World Refugee Day, June 20, 2016

Finding our Way: Immigrants, Refugees and Canadian Churches – An interdenominational guide to action by The Role of Churches in Immigrant Settlement and Integration, a national and interdenominational research partnership funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Refugee sponsorship webinar – Hosted by Greg Laing (MB Mission), with Peter and Dawn Lynn Prediger (Inasmuch Community Society), Jennifer Mpungu (Mennonite Central Committee), Pastor Sam (Egyptian immigrant from Surrey, B.C.), Jenny Toews (refugee sponsor from Richmond, B.C.), and Lois Waterton (refugee sponsor from Surrey, B.C.).

Agencies

Canadian Council on Refugees

Mennonite Central Committee

Local agencies

Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support (MCRS) — Kitchener Waterloo

Welcome Home — Kitchener Waterloo

Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council – Winnipeg

Open Door Society — Saskatoon

Centre for Newcomers – Calgary

Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Kinbrace Refugee Housing and Support – Vancouver

Journey Home Community – Burnaby, B.C.

New Hope Community Services Society – Surrey, B.C.

 

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Other resources

Teaching series on “Understanding Islam” at Steinbach MB with John Derksen

5 Mennonite Brethren gifts for our Muslims friends

5 years and counting: MCC’s relief numbers

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