Posts tagged Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
SOFIA: Connecting cultures at camp

In this week’s Story of Faith in Action (SOFIA), we meet Matt Rusch, director of Outlaw Ranch, who started from scratch in building a family camp connecting cultures.

The idea was to make family camp look like the church in South Dakota, which is both multilingual and racially diverse, he said. "We just jumped into this,” he said. “[There was] no model. We [thought], ‘We know God is in the mix, so somehow it will work out.’”

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SOFIA: Many languages, one growing church

In this week’s Story of Faith in Action (SOFIA), when God spoke to Jean Paul Kisuku, Kisuku knew he had to listen.

While living in the Congo, Kisuku spread the gospel through prayer groups with fellow Congolese and neighbors in nearby Uganda. After immigrating to the United States, he stepped away from ministry to focus on secular work to support his family. God had other plans.

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243 faith leaders call on President Trump to welcome 95,000 refugees as deadline for admissions ceiling looms

“As people of faith, we believe that we must honor the dignity of every human, regardless of national origin,” reads the letter. “We have a commitment to follow the teachings of Jesus and to uphold our nation’s tradition of protecting the persecuted.”

Read the full press release for this letter on the LIRS website here. The letter with complete signatures is posted here.

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