A slogan has been coined: We can’t help them all; but, we can help one! That is true, if we continue each man for himself’. But, if we can start working as a network of persons that see the situation as a God given opportunity then we can certainly help many more!
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We open our hands to receive your grace, mercy, life, and love, That our lives become a safe place to encounter God, a place where love is experienced.
The Swimmers powerfully brings the big issue of the refugee crisis down to a more focused look at the very personal story of individuals, which compels empathy and a strong desire to help refugees.
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I wasn’t sure I wanted to go. Trying to pack my carry-on for Portland weather, I wondered whether I was making a mistake traveling to the opposite coast for the RHPNA Roundtable conference. Red eye flights there and back, hotel headaches, and rain in the forecast almost every day? I sighed as I finished packing and prepared to depart, hoping I wasn’t making an expensive mistake…
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Announcing updated plans on the RHPNA Roundtable 2022. We’re going to the beautiful Portland area in the Pacific Northwest!
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The RHPNA’s first southeast regional gathering took place at Forest Hills Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC on Feb 19…
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Announcing a SE United States Refugee Roundtable! Details are still in the works, but we have the date and venue figured out and are working on speakers and roundtable topics (NC, SC, TN, GA, FL, VA)…
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In London, Ontario this past summer, a man carried out a horrific attack on a Muslim family, triggered by his hatred for their faith. It was heartbreaking news…
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After 14 years of international and domestic campus ministry, Tony Burrell found himself back in his home region of Northwest Indiana in 2014. With a burden to equip churches to support displaced people, he founded The Welcome Network (TWN)…
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In 2013, Rob Perry and his ministry colleagues at The Peoples Church in Toronto began praying about how to support forcibly displaced people. God used an RHPNA event to spark the connections that became IAFR Canada. Here’s how it happened...
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“A friend invited me to attend the 2017 RHPNA Roundtable in Dallas. There I learned from like-minded people who were asking the same questions I was. I listened and prayed. I took pagefuls of notes and met dozens of people who are now my colleagues and friends…“
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Join fellow RHPNA network members for a four-part, online, à-la-carte book discussion of Refuge Reimagined by Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville…
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On Wed, March 17 2021, the RHPNA’s James Grunau (Journey Home Community, Vancouver) partnered with authors Mark (Regent College, Vancouver) & Luke (Australian National University, Canberra) Glanville to discuss Offered Refuge: Making Family at the Intersection of Scripture and Global Politics.
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While you gather around with loved ones this Christmas season, freshly cut tree nearby, I want you to enjoy this 2017 world music album “Christmas Caravan” by the Toronto-based band Sultans of Strings, a talented crew passionate about collaboration with refugee and immigrant musicians and singers…
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A statement from the RHPNA calling us to focus on our shared faith in Jesus and commitment to serving the forcibly displaced.
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2020 was supposed to be our big year! We were planning to encourage and foster regional gathering across the U.S. and Canada like no other year, but then we all know what happened instead. So cancellation after cancellation followed…
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