Refugee Resettlement Numbers will be DECIDED this Month!
(Above: Rev. Allison Lanza, Ridglea Christian Church & Connect Ft. Worth, & Rt: refugee hospital worker, Leu, in AK with cssalaska.org)
Show Your Welcome--
Call Your Legislators NOW!
Disciples have responded to welcome refugees for over 75 years, since near the end of WWII. See stories
HERE, being shared daily through RIM’s “40for40” campaign, in honor of the 40 year anniversary of the US Refugee Act of 1980!
Refugee Resettlement Numbers have been REDUCED BY 80% in the past three years—and the next year’s resettlement numbers will be decided THIS MONTH! Learn more
HERE as 11 Disciples leaders from six key leadership decision states of TX, OH, NC, CO, UT, and IA, are joining national Refugee Virtual Advocacy Days THIS WEEK!
· PLEASE PRAY for Revs. Alan Dicken, Andy Mangum, Allison Lanza, Mark Pumphrey, Vinnetta Golphin, Feliberto Pereira, Joan Bell-Haynes, Laurie Anderson, and Debbie Griffin, together with Disciples Immigration Legal Counsel Natalie Teague and RIM Director Rev. Sharon Stanley-Rea, who are taking part in the national Refugee Advocacy Days--and
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RAISE YOUR VOICE by calling your Senators and Representatives to ask our US Refugee Resettlement numbers be returned to our historic average of 95,000 per year! Go
HERE for a sample script and help to call!
