World Relief seeks to empower the local church to serve refugees by members greeting them when they arrive, setting up housing, helping them find jobs, assisting their children in school and aiding them in adjusting to a new culture, Soerens said.
For the next five months, Send Relief is providing coaching to help churches minister to Afghans resettled in their communities. Churches interested in being trained may complete a contact form at sendrelief.org.
Messengers to the 2016 SBC Annual Meeting adopted a resolution that urged Southern Baptist “churches and families to welcome and adopt refugees into their churches and homes as a means to demonstrate to the nations that our God longs for every tribe, tongue, and nation to be welcomed at His throne.” Messengers to the 2018 meeting reaffirmed that resolution.
Brent Leatherwood, the ERLC’s acting president, moderated the conversation on refugees.
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