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Fall 2014 Newsletter
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#ShareTheJourney
This summer was a time of increasing awareness across the church and the country about the plight of vulnerable migrants. As Episcopal Migration Ministries launched its year-long #ShareTheJourney campaign the week of World Refugee Day (June 20), the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees released sobering statistics: For the first time since World War II, there are more than 50 million forcibly displaced people worldwide. With violent conflicts, the rise of extremism, gang-related violence and exploitation, and prolonged refugee crises across the globe, the world is crying out for hope. This is where we have a role to play, we who proclaim Easter, we who proclaim the triumph of life over death.
Jesus read: “‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor ... to proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ … Then he said, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing’” [Luke 4:16-21, paraphrased].
How is this scripture fulfilled today, in our own time? What does it look like, this proclamation of hope?
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Spinning Circle at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Lexington
At Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM), our affiliate in the
Diocese of Lexington, Nepali refugee women recently had the opportunity to teach staff and volunteers how to card and spin wool. “I was asking several refugee women about their work experience,” said Luella Pavey, job developer at KRM, “and they were responding that they did not have jobs in Nepal. I learned that most of the Nepali women had been spinning wool in the refugee camps. I assured them that was work and that they had had jobs!”
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Fostering Empathy Through Stories
Refugees resettled through our New Bern affiliate, Interfaith Refugee Ministry of the Diocese of East Carolina, recently contributed their stories to the
Cogs and Wheels Project’s STORIES exhibition. An artist planned the installation, gathering story material through boxes that were placed around town, inviting people to submit true stories either signed or anonymously. The purpose of the Cogs and Wheels Project is to foster empathy by creating a more caring, welcoming environment. Many refugees shared their work to add to the wonderful diversity of stories.
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‘I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me’: The Church Responds to the Needs of Central American Migrants
Throughout the summer, Episcopalians responded to the growing humanitarian needs at the border by lifting their voices, calling for compassion, loving service, and prayer. Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) and Justice and Advocacy Ministries jointly offered a churchwide webinar called “Central American Migrants: An Episcopal Response.”
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