Journey Home Community serves refugee claimants by providing housing, resettlement assistance and relational support. Following is the story of how Marleni Curi Gomez and her family were welcomed by Journey Home and how she is now helping with their ministry… Read more →
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Culture, Justice
Key community events: Support Middle East Christians, Rally for Refugees
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Local Christians have already demonstrated in numerous ways how much they care about the turmoil in the Middle East and the resulting refugee crisis. Three upcoming events will allow churches and Christians to gain practical insights on how to support… Read more →
Community, Justice
Journey Home Community: Resettling refugees, hosting Ride for Refuge
by Flyn Ritchie • • 2 Comments
Journey Home Community is making a real impact in Metro Vancouver, both through its work with refugees and as the host of Ride for Refuge in British Columbia. Refugee work Journey Home began life modestly, but the 10th anniversary party celebrated… Read more →
City, Community
Around Town: Communities of Welcome, Humanists/TWU, Coldest Night, GROW
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Many people are feeling isolated during the pandemic; imagine what it must be like for refugee claimant families who arrived during this time of imposed separation. Journey Home Community is offering a ‘discovery meeting’ February 25 to help people help… Read more →
Community
New Hope: In Motion
by Yehuda Mansell • • 1 Comment
World Refugee Day (June 20) and World Refugee Sunday (June 21) remind us that tens of millions of people in our world have nowhere to call home. But some of them do find new homes. Vancouver has several front line… Read more →
City, Community
Willingdon Church’s ‘Love Our City’ day served refugees and many others
by Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
Every week I hear of new and creative ways in which churches and individual Christians are working for the good of the broader community. And I am sure that I don’t hear about most of them, even though I’m always… Read more →
Community, Justice
Bill C-97 shows Liberals have ‘given in to anti-refugee sentiments’
by Citizens for Public Justice • • 0 Comments
Based in Ottawa, Citizens for Public Justice (CPJ) is a Christian voice for social and environmental justice in Canadian public policy, focusing on poverty in Canada, ecological justice, and refugee rights. They released this statement April 10. Citizens for Public… Read more →
Culture, Justice
Seeking support from Ottawa for a Refugee Claimant Reception Centre
by James Grunau • • 0 Comments
James Grunau and Loren Balisky have created thriving communities locally (Journey Home and Kinbrace), which share housing – and lives – with refugee claimants. Last week they travelled to Ottawa to appear before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration,… Read more →
City, Community
Around Town: Refugee housing needed! Brian McConaghy, Carolyn Arends . . .
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
James Grunau sent an email to his partner churches last week regarding the desperate housing situation for many newly arriving refugee claimant families. Grunau runs Journey Home, which works with refugee claimants. He says the church community has already begun… Read more →
City, Justice
Opposing Trump’s refugee ban, developing a ‘culture of welcome’
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
Journey Home Community has been a leader in welcoming refugees to Metro Vancouver over the past decade or so (see here, here and here). Its commitment has again been made clear in a recent letter of concern to the Liberal… Read more →