Archive for February 2009
Helping refugee families return home
Southern Baptists are helping a group of 600 families in Central Asia who have returned home after many years in refugee camps in neighboring countries. They have come back to nothing and are having to start rebuilding their lives in the midst of winter.
Field partners are using Southern Baptist relief and hunger funds to meet critical needs for food, shelter, and heating during January. Food parcels containing flour, peas, rice, cooking oil, beans, and sugar are being distributed. Coal, blankets, and a tent have been given to each family.
A prayer request from the field partner: “Ask God to bless these families who are ‘going home’ after such a long time. Pray that these material things will help them realize how much God loves them and cares about their lives.”
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Contributions to the Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund make projects like this possible. For information about the World Hunger Fund, please visit the Baptist Global Response website.
