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Embracing Uncomfortable Conversations: 4 Lessons We Learned Engaging Faith Leaders in Family Planning
Conversations around family planning and reproductive health can be uncomfortable for many — especially when they take place in faith settings. But at World Relief, our decades of experience have shown us that faith leaders are often best positioned to have these conversations and pave the way for families to thrive in their communities.
Read MoreA Prayer Practice for the New Year
Start the new year with a prayer of Examen, a prayer practice to deepen your communion with God, your compassion for yourself and others and even change the world.
Read MoreLiving Outside the Box: A Story of Transformation (VIDEO)
“Thinking outside of the box” is a phrase often used to praise imaginative and bold ideas. When we need to solve a problem but there’s no clear path forward, our minds are stretched and we are forced to imagine a better way. But what would it look like to not just think outside the box, but to LIVE outside of the box as well?
Read MoreOpen Doors US & World Relief Warn Proposed Changes to U.S. Asylum Laws Could Imperil Persecuted Christians
Today, World Relief and Open Doors US published the 2023 “Closed Doors” report detailing the current state of religious persecution around the world and its connection to U.S. refugee resettlement and asylum policies. Read more here.
Read MoreLiving Outside the Box: Rodney’s Story of Transformation (VIDEO)
“Thinking outside of the box” is a phrase often used to praise imaginative and bold ideas. When we need to solve a problem but there’s no clear path forward, our minds are stretched and we are forced to imagine a better way. But what would it look like to not just think outside the box, but to LIVE outside of the box as well?
Read MoreChange That Lasts Through Mutual Transformation
by Amber Díaz Pearson // At World Relief Durham, we often talk about mutual transformation as a central goal for relationships within our community: among churches, between volunteers and newcomers, between staff and neighbors. But what does it take to build the kind of authentic friendships that would lead to mutual transformation? While no two…
Read MoreWorld Relief Durham’s Efforts for Immigrant Equity
This summer, Adam Clark, World Relief Durham’s Executive Director, wrote a piece for local nonprofit partner Built2Last Innovations Lab‘s quarterly magazine, Vol. 3. World Relief Durham (WRD) is working towards one main goal in the Triangle region: immigrant equity. For hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians who were born in another country, life presents numerous…
Read MoreDisability Inclusion Training Makes Way for New Leaders
What if there was a new way forward — one not marked by injustice and division but by love, humility and unity of spirit? One where pastors work together across denominational lines to affect change in their communities, where people and communities meet a Jesus who cares for them body, mind, soul and spirit.
Read MoreA Far Greater Gift: Restored Relationships and Eternal Hope in Jesus
What if there was a new way forward — one not marked by injustice and division but by love, humility and unity of spirit? One where pastors work together across denominational lines to affect change in their communities, where people and communities meet a Jesus who cares for them body, mind, soul and spirit.
Read More5 Inspirational Stories Of Hope That Show What Your Gift Can Do
We can’t do this work without people like here. Here are five inspirational stories of hope that show what a gift to World Relief can do this season.
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