Build Long-Lasting Friendships with Your New Neighbors

This bundle includes resources to help you build mutually transformative 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.

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Churches of Welcome Community

Churches of Welcome Community

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Explore World Relief and our work around the world and in your local community.

Learn 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.

Explore the basics of cross-cultural friendship and gain a framework for how to recognize, navigate and be enriched by cultural differences.

How 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.

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.

How 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.