Welcome with Confidence
This bundle has essential resources to equip you to welcome a new family to your community.
SERVE | Good Neighbor Team Member
A resource bundle to equip Good Neighbor Team members as they welcome a new family to your community.
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Churches of Welcome - Community
CommunityVisit the community space for new resources and weekly updates on how your church can grow in its discipleship journey of welcome. You can also use this space to connect with people from other ministries also doing the work of welcoming!
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Get to Know World Relief
CourseExplore World Relief and our work around the world and in your local community. Estimated time to complete: 30 minutes.
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A World on the Move
CourseDiscover how God works through migration and how the Church is uniquely called to respond. This course equips you with biblical insights and practical steps to walk alongside displaced people.
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The Asylum Seeker's Journey
CourseThis course will help you understand the facts about asylum and provide a clear overview of asylum seekers in the United States. Est. time to complete: 45 minutes.
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The Refugee Journey
CourseWhat does the term "refugee" mean? How do refugees come to the U.S.? How do organizations like World Relief fit in? Explore these questions and more in The Refugee’s Journey. 45 minutes.
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Welcoming the Stranger: Independent Study
CourseBased on the book by Matthew Sorens and Jenny Yang, this course is a journey into thinking biblically about immigration. This course offers space for listening, learning, reflection, and transformation. 90 minutes.
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Navigating Friendships
CourseLearn to build empowering, long-lasting friendships with those who may differ from you in culture, socio-economic status, and religion, and best practices for supporting a friend who lives with trauma. 60 minutes.
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Embracing Cultural Differences
CourseExplore the basics of cross-cultural friendship and gain a framework for how to recognize, navigate and be enriched by cultural differences. 60 minutes.
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Embracing Socio-Economic Differences
CourseHow do we engage in friendship with those of a different economic status than us without causing harm? This course widens our definition of poverty and helps us strive for mutuality and authenticity in our friendships. 60 minutes.
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Navigating the Effects of Trauma
CourseThis course helps build awareness and sensitivity to how the effects of trauma may be at play in friendships, and how we can support those who experience the effects of trauma in their everyday lives. 60 minutes.
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Navigating Religious Differences
CourseHow do we effectively welcome and befriend neighbors of different faith backgrounds? This course helps us examine motivations in interfaith friendships, and to foster relationships with trust and mutuality. Estimated time to complete: 60 min.
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Afghan Culture Guide
CourseThis course offers a foundational understanding of Afghan history and culture, including best practices for interacting with your new Afghan friends. 90 minutes.
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Congolese Culture Guide
CourseThis course offers a foundational understanding of Congolese history and culture, including best practices for interacting with your new Congolese friends. 90 minutes.
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Syrian Culture Guide
CourseThis course offers a foundational understanding of Syrian history and culture, including best practices for interacting with your new Syrian friends. 90 minutes.
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Ukrainian Culture Guide
CourseThis course offers a foundational understanding of Ukrainian history and culture, including best practices for interacting with your new Ukrainian friends. 90 minutes.
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Career Mentoring
CourseEquipping you to mentor a career-seeking immigrant with confidence. 90 minutes.
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Citizenship Tutoring
CourseLearn the ins and outs of the U.S. naturalization test and how to help an English language learner feel confident as they prepare for their interview. 5 hours.
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Early Childhood
CourseThis course will give you practical tools, helpful information, and best practices in early childhood development. 60 minutes.
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English Conversation Partners
CourseEverything you need to support an English learner. Navigate a language barrier, be a culturally sensitive language partner, and choose helpful topics of conversation to support your new friend as they learn English. 90 mins.
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ESL Tutoring
CourseThis course will help provide everything you need to know to tutor adult English language learners. 6 hours.
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Health Advocate
CourseLearn how to support a newly arrived immigrant with their health needs as they get used to life in the U.S. 1 hour
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Youth Tutoring and Mentoring
CourseThis course will equip youth volunteers to engage immigrant youth with confidence. 90 minutes.
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No Longer Strangers
CourseBased on the book "No Longer Strangers," this course will help you and your church reimagine evangelism with immigrant communities.
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Welcoming the Stranger: Small Group
CourseExplore immigration through a biblical lens with your small group. Gain deep insights into compassion, justice, and hospitality. Join other American churches in this transformative journey.
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Good Neighbor Team Toolkit
CourseDiscover the essentials of serving as a Good Neighbor Team that walks alongside of a newly arrived refugee family and assists with practical resettlement tasks aimed at empowering the family to move towards self-sufficiency.
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Host Homes Toolkit
CourseDiscover the essentials of serving as a Host Home that provides a temporary housing solution for refugees and other immigrants awaiting permanent housing.