Cross Cultural and Refugee Issues Training

At this year’s Celebration of Hope we presented two awards recognizing outstanding contributions made on behalf of refugees. Please click on each name to read more about their investments in the lives of refugees.

Tomi Griesnauer

First Congregational Church – Geneva

“I felt like an alien. America was a strange place, and I was a stranger in it.”  Bhutanese refugee

For 19 years after they fled from Bhutan to Nepal, the home of Bishnu* and his family was a small thatched-roof hut in a refugee camp. They finally resettled in America in February of 2009. But that presented a new set of problems.

Senaa Hussain and her children fled kidnapping, car bombings and killing in Iraq.

Click here to view the Celebration of Hope dinner video where Joy Solis welcomed them when they resettled in the United States.

 I am so happy! Refugee from Burma

We recently conducted structured interviews with refugees served through our programs to get their feedback and recommendations.

We’ve been inspired recently by a “Tale of Two Grandmothers.”

"Welcome him like Christ has welcomed you," said the handwritten message.

We can’t help you with the answer.  But Sabin* can.

I praise God for the difference you’ve made this year for courageous survivors from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq and other countries .

Hundreds of students at five university campuses across the Chicagoland area received refugee ministry training from Exodus.