We have been in touch with many of you by other means, but for those who only keep up through our blog, we’re sorry for such an unbelievably long time since our last real update.
We are thrilled to share with you a long list of amazing praise reports from our ministry with World Relief Durham, for which we are thanking God. Each one of these has a prayer request connected to it as well…
1) We are praising God for a very strong close of the past year of partnership with churches as we serve the most vulnerable here in the Triangle, even in spite of considerable setbacks that were experienced during the year, through refugee arrivals being frozen and considerably reduced due to complicated security screening changes.
The prayer request for this is that these new security screenings will be modified so they both accomplish their intended purpose, but do not create backlogs of refugees who are unfairly delayed or denied travel clearance
2) We are praising God that our office in Durham has been approved by our Home Office to become a full-fledged affiliate in the World Relief network. This new status is to be implemented some time in January.
Please pray that there will be no delays in our important transition.
3) God has opened a door for World Relief Durham to become directly involved in Anti Human Trafficking (AHT) work. We are very excited to jump into this important by very serious area of seeking justice for this vulnerable group. There is a lot to learn, and many important relationships to be formed quickly.
Please pray on several fronts here: the AHT work is very dark, as it deals with modern-day slavery in its most depraved forms. Please also pray for us as we seek to build networks of relationships to span multiple areas of need for those we are serving and helping to begin rebuilding life.
4) We are on the threshold of beginning some new work with a broader scope of immigrants in the Triangle. Part of this is working together with church partners in the area to help the Church across our area to gain or be strengthened in a biblical perspective on God’s heart for the nations and ministry to immigrants, regardless of their status in our country.
While Scripture is clear, this is a divisive issue as political viewpoints tend to influence our perspectives on such issues, even more than we allow the Scripture to. Pray for strong relationships with partnering churches, as well as many new doors for ministry to be opened.
Believe it or not, there is even more exciting news to share, and need for prayer, but I think I’ll stop this update here so we don’t lose your attention. Thank you so much for your prayer. You can get regular (usually daily) updates on the ministry of World Relief Durham both on our facebook page as well as on our blog. And our newly revised website has a wealth of information and opportunities for getting involved as well.
