The Refugee Assistance Fellowship Team (R.A.F.T.)
Information Meetings on the 4th Tuesday of Each Month, 7:00 p.m. at the Nelson Home
Our Refugee Assistance and Fellowship Team, (RAFT) a ministry within FBCG, partners with World Relief, Aurora to help these families resettle. We collect household items for the Good Neighbor Kits (GNK) set up apartments for new arrivals, are Host Families and Friendship Partners and there are opportunities for tutoring in the ESL programs for adults and children.
All current refugee volunteers and anyone who is interested in learning more about FBCG's refugee ministry are invited to attend one of the monthly dessert meetings held at the home of Rick and Ruth Nelson (6 Hathaway Crescent in the Presbury area of Aurora, east of Highway 47 off Bliss Road). Contact Ruth Nelson for directions.
Opportunities to Serve
- Friendship partners: Make new friends as you visit weekly to help a family who has recently arrived in America from Myanmar, Iraq, Bhutan or different African countries. Grocery Shop, answer questions, visit together...It's a joy!
- Ladies' Tea Time: Encourage refugee women through your friendship, sharing practical homemaking skills and conservational English over tea and treats. Meets Thursdays from 11:30 - 2:00 p.m. at St. David's Chruch, Randall & Illinois Ave., Aurora. Contact: Sue Tristano
- Childrens' After-school Bible Club: World Relief Kids grades K-5 meet weekly on Tuesday from 3:00 - 4:30 at St. David's Church (Randall Rd & Illinois Ave. Aurora) See separate flyer for details & needs on a regular and rotation basis.
- Ladies Prayer & Bible Time: A new ministry to reach out & visit Christian refugee women in their homes in small groups to pray & read God's promises. Times will be determined by the participants.
- Apartment Set-up: Pam Harris collects house hold items for the Good Neighbor Kit. Join others to get the apartment ready to welcome a new family.
Celebrate World Refugee Sunday
June 21, 2009
It's a time to learn more, to pray for the world's 14 million refugees and to speak up on behalf of refugees wherever we can.
We are thankful that just 8 miles south on Randall Rd from FBCG dozens of refugee families from war-torn countries have been safely settled in Aurora by World Relief (WR) and are building new lives. How fun and interesting it is to meet these "New Americans" and become friends! Oh, how it changes and enriches our lives to get to know them and learn of their cultures, taste new foods and share about how things are in America and in their countries.. Refugees have come from Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bhutan, Vietnam, and the Chin, Karen, and Karenni ethnic groups from Burma. From Africa we have families from Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo and Eritrea. All refugees are screened and brought here in cooperation with the UN, the US Government and the partnering relief agency- in our case, World Relief. Refugees are completely legal and ready and eager to work.
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Children's Programs
We need people who love Jesus and love Children!
If you would like a chance to meet and connect with children from all over the world, R.A.F.T. Refugee ministries at FBCG has just the place to do it.
Vacation Bible School
June 29 - July 3, 2009
Location: St. David's Church, Randall & Illinois Ave, Aurora
Volunteers are still needed as drivers to bring kids to and from VBS, and cooks to serve a healthy lunch.
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