Hosting Refugees

With the war in Ukraine, Western Europe is seeing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees, fleeing from their home.

Here in the UK, there are a number of appeals to people to provide suitable host housing and shelter. Here’s how you can help:

If you live in a city, you can register with Refugees At Home. However, they are urrently unwilling to host refugees in towns or villages that are not part of a major connurbation.

Beryl from our congregation is trying to make arrangements so that a cluster of refugees can be hosted here in West Devon – and because it would be a group, they would have the support of their fellow Ukrainians in this, a foreign country. If you are interested, she recommends you contact the Daily Mail, asking for John Abiona at ukraine@dailymail.co.uk.

Reflecting God’s Love

How do we share God’s presence with others? It is this difficult question I found myself discussing with friends recently. It is all too easy to place yourself and what you do at the centre of everything – after all surely it was my hard work that meant that the last person came back to church. How wonderful I was! I take a step back, see my pride and decide to become less physically involved. So I pray. But no one comes and I feel the call to do something. So where does this leave us?

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