Last updated on November 30th, 2024
In November 2014, Martin Luther Church started to help sponsor refugee resettlement together with the Canadian Lutheran World Relief (https://elcic.ca/canadian-lutheran-world-relief/) and created the Refugee Support Team initially for Syrian refugees.
Over the years the Refugee Support Team helped our refugee families with integration into Canadian society through settlement assistance (finding a place to live, help with moving, providing donated furnishings, bicycles, etc.), connecting them with the required community and government resources, employment searches, tutoring, educational liaison, and ongoing supportive encouragement and communication. Our team’s efforts have been actively supported by church members, including running significant fundraising events.
As Christians, we are called to put our faith and hope into action and to meet the needs of the oppressed and vulnerable by reflecting our own experience of God’s love for us.
“You shall treat the stranger who resides with you as one born among you. You shall love that one as yourself.” – Lev. 19: 34
Contact:
Greg and Anneli Andre-Barrett,
Co-Chairs MLC Refugee Support Team, [email protected]
