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Life-on-Life: Why Being a Friendship Partner Matters

Please meet Rick Hayden, who volunteers with World Relief Chicagoland as a Friendship Partner. Friendship Partners make a 6-month commitment to provide practical and relational assistance to newly arrived immigrants or refugees. The volunteer visits approximately once a week to help practice language, understand culture, navigate services, and most importantly, to be a friend. Here…

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Souzan’s Story: fleeing religious persecution

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Souzan held a Bible study in her home.  A seemingly benign, everyday activity. Except… Souzan lived in Iran. She had been secretly teaching the Bible in her home for years when one of her friends brought two new friends. Souzan didn’t know these new people, and she wasn’t sure of their motives. Did they want…

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The sprouts of a new land

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After a decade of putting her goals and dreams to a pause, Claudine finds ways to resurrect a long-rooted farming lifestyle in her family.

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A Prayer for Israel and Gaza

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Thank you for your generous outpouring of financial support and for praying with us over the last two weeks. As the situation in Israel and Gaza continues to unfold, we continue to ask the Lord for peace and provision in the region. Let us raise our hands to the Lord, for whom nothing is impossible. …

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Frequently Asked Questions: Refugee Resettlement in the Chippewa Valley

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Who are refugees? Under U.S. and international law, refugees are individuals who are outside of their country of origin who have a well-founded fear of persecution on account of their race, religion, political opinion, national origin or particular social group. Globally, there an estimated 35.3 million refugees who meet this definition. Back in 1980, the…

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World Relief Expands and Rebrands Wisconsin Locations in Response to Growing Displacement Crisis

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: wr@pinkston.co Appleton, WI (October 20, 2023) — World Relief announces a rebrand for its office locations in Appleton and Oshkosh to World Relief Wisconsin. With an expansion to Chippewa Valley this month, the faith-based refugee resettlement and immigrant services agency updated its name to better reflect its regional impact. The first…

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Eleven Years, Seven Countries, One Home

At that moment, Bibi probably didn’t even know Spokane, Washington existed. If someone had told her that her four boys would all be 4.0 students or that she would one day be an American citizen, she might have assumed they were lying, crazy, or both

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