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Change the Life of a Child Like Mawi

One Backpack at a Time

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How You Can Make a Difference in the Life of a Refugee Student

1. Buy a backpack for a refugee student.

2. Fill your backpack with new, age-appropriate items from the "10 essential school supplies" list.

    If you're able, add items from the optional list as well.

3. Write an optional personal welcome note and/or include a photo of yourself and/or your family.

4. Include a donation of $5 to help cover distribution and other refugee expenses.

5. Drop off your backpack at the Dupage World Relief office at 1825 College Avenue, Suite 280,

    Wheaton, IL 60187. (Backpacks will not be accepted at the College Church office.)

National Collection Week: August 16-22, 2010

For more information, visit www.Back-2-School.org.

Contact the Missions Office at (630) 668-0878, ext. 191 for more information about how you can get involved with refugee and immigrant ministries.

HERE ARE OTHER WAYS YOU CAN IMPACT THE LIFE OF A REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT!

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1. Share/donate your family’s gently-used winter clothing.
2. Conduct a class on basic car maintenance.
3. Hire an immigrant.
4. Become an ESL aide.
5. Be a Friendship Partner to a newly arrived individual or family.
6. Volunteer in the kids’ summer programs.
7. Meet a new family at the airport.
8. Provide local transportation.
9. Donate services or products to World Relief’s annual silent auction.
10. Adopt a family with your adult community or small group.
11. Organize a penny collection in the Sunday School class you’re teaching.
12. Collect items for a Good Neighbor Kit.
13. Attend a workshop sponsored by the Missions Leadership Network or the Billy Graham Center.
14. Provide short-term housing for an individual.
15. Visit the annual Ten Thousand Villages Benefit Night each December at which 20% of the sales are given to World Relief.
16. Pray for an individual, for World Relief and/or for the plight of many refugees and immigrants arriving to our shores each year.
17. Donate gently used furniture.
18. Provide rolls of quarters for laundry.
19. Buy disposable diapers and laundry detergent to donate (items not covered by food stamps).
20. Help an immigrant through the process of educational applications.
21. Train to be a citizenship assistant.
22. Volunteer to help the Donations Coordinator at the World Relief office.
23. Offer a financial planning seminar.
24. Donate to Repeat Boutique.
25. Order your coffee through www.causalcoffee.com to benefit World Relief (25% of proceeds)
26. Attend the “Mission on Your Doorstep” Conference scheduled in the spring each year.
27. Attend the Annual World Relief benefit.
28. Host a table at the Annual World Relief benefit.
29. Read the book Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in the Immigration Debate by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hwang.
30. Pray that the global church would mobilize to tangibly express God’s love to “the least of these”.
31. Volunteer and/or donate items for the annual Refugee Christmas Connection.
32. Check out World Relief’s newest video documenting 30 years of service at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlX71uqV3ew).
33. Provide legal advice.
34. Volunteer on Saturdays at Sonlight (a tutoring program for African refugee children).
35. Attend the Liberian Fellowship services held at College Church on Sunday evenings.
36. Assist with childcare provided for the ESL students during classes.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

Click here for a link to information on our partner agencies.

Contact the Missions Pastor or Administrative Assistant for Missions at 630-668-0878 or missions@college-church.org.

Deuteronomy 10:18-19 "He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt."

In the 1900s almost 90% of immigrants to the United States were European. In 2000 more than 75% of immigrants to the United States were Asian and Hispanic. If the current trend continues, there will be no majority racial or ethnic group in this country by 2050.