REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP PROJECT

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The family (current application) have been issued Visas and are waiting for flight information. They willbe with us in the next 7-11 weeks.

To support the family we are in need of -

* a place for them to live (the process started 5 years ago when the housing crisis is not what it is now)

*and financial support

Is you heart into welcoming? Consider sponsoring:

start up cost - mother/4yr old $1710

start up cost - twenty yr old female $1100

monthly allowance - mother/4yr old $1020

monthly allowance - twenty yr old female $750

Refugees are financially supported by the congregation for a year.

In 2017 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Halifax, welcomed 12 Ethiopians via Nairobi, through Canada Lutheran World Relief. The 12 have were reunited with their sister (a member at Resurrection) and her family who  came a number of years before as refugees. The family is doing well!

Continuing this work Resurrection currently has new applications underway.  We look forward to welcoming newe family.

Resurrection's family includes families from Ethiopia and Eritrea.  

Our current application is to bring a family of four Eritreans who will be reunified with relatives. - three siblings and one of these with a four year old.

The congregation has a sponsorship list  representing 10 family groups (10 sponsorship undertakings). Currently these refugees are in Central Shimelba camp in Ethiopia and in Kalobeyei Village camp in Kenya. 

South Grey Lutheran Parish (ON) is sponsoring  the second family group of 5.  This parish is supporting the application financially and through prayer. Resurrection will be providing on the ground work when the family arrives.

If you are a congregation who would like to sponsor a family financially and have others welcome/resettle please feel free to email the church for details.