Church Engagement

You long to serve your congregation well, to effectively call and mobilize them for mission and launch them into lives committed to the most vulnerable.

How can you inspire your congregants to 'Be The Church' seven days a week? To go out into all the world as disciples? And how do you, as a leader, follow your call to move your church?

These are questions many of us grapple with daily. And finding the answers can often be incredibly challenging.

But here's the good news. We understand, and we can help.

Donate Welcome Kits

MEET TANGIBLE NEEDS OF NEWLY ARRIVING REFUGEE FAMILIES

Refugees often flee their homes at a moment's notice. They arrive at our airport with few belongings, a difficult past and high hopes for the future. Welcome Kits provide the basic household items refugees need as they begin a new journey in our community- one we invite you to join.

For Fort Worth & Dallas - Contact our DFW offices by email: donationstexas@wr.org to donate your Welcome Kits.

For Austin - Contact Maya Jung by email: mjung@wr.org to donate your Welcome Kits.

Donate Welcome Kit

Empowering Local Churches

At World Relief Texas, we've been partnering with churches across the region for over 40 years, helping them join in God's plan to bring lasting change to our world. Our passion is to create partnerships that support and empower local churches to serve immigrants and refugees in vulnerable situations.

SCHEDULE A CONVERSATION

Start, Rise, Stand

Together, we can expand your congregation's understanding of what it means to love, serve and learn from immigrants and refugees, as well as guide your church through a process we call START, RISE, and STAND.

START exploring what it might look like for your church to serve refugees and immigrants. We prepare an individualized plan for your congregation to learn and launch into a ministry of welcome.

RISE stands for Refugee and Immigrant Sunday Emphasis. We partner with you to design and deliver a customized event or program that will help your congregation understand God's heart for refugees and immigrants.

STAND with refugees and immigrants by taking what you've learned from your RISE event and putting it into action to welcome refugees and immigrants in the community.

SCHEDULE A CONVERSATION

7 Reasons We Believe The Church Can Change The World

We believe that when the church is mobilized to achieve its full potential, it has the power to change our world. We believe this because:

1. The local church is God's plan to reveal his mercy, compassion and truth to people around the world.
2. The local church is the largest social network on the planet and has the ability, authority and permanency to do far more than any government institution or non-profit organization could.
3. The local church is led by local, trusted community leaders - those with an inside voice and understanding that no outside organization can bring.
4. The local church has the influence and moral authority to shape behaviors rooted in biblical values of love, compassion and justice.
5. The local church offers the greatest hope of reconciliation between classes, tribes, ethnicities and political parties, unifying people under a common identity in Christ.
6. The local church can restore dignity and bring hope to the suffering, forgotten and marginalized by reaching out to the most vulnerable in its community and answering God's call to love.
7. The local church is empowered by the Holy Spirit to do more than human wisdom and efforts could ever possibly accomplish alone.

"The needs of these families are important to us. It allows Grace Baptist Church to contribute from the heart and educate our youth to love others from other countries, languages, and backgrounds. We are grateful for this partnership and look forward to continuing progress with these families by God's grace as we seek to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the rest of the world."

- Grace Baptist Church