We were recently asked to help train workers from a local church here in the USA in the most fruitful practices to share faith and life with Muslim refugees in their city. What resources would you recommend to help them? Let’s make a “Brigada Best” list! A great friend named Carole has already started the list. (Click “Read More” to see what she’s included.)
- Making Room (Christine Pohl) – All about the role of hospitality with some special phasis on refugees)
- A Hope More Powerful than the Sea (Melissa Fleming) – The amazing true story of a Syrian girl.
- Strangers in the Kingdom: Ministering to Refugees, Migrants and the Stateless (Rupen Das and Brent Hamoud)
- The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
Thanks for helping us start the list, Carole. Now — what books and resources would YOU add to the list? Please just click Comment to grow the stack. Thanks for your help!
The Crescent Project https://www.crescentproject.org/ has a lot of resources for reaching Muslims. I personal used the Bridges small group study and thought it was excellent.
The RISE Project (theriseproject.com) is a website filled with resources that was launched at ICOM 2016.
Muslims Next Door (Shirin Taber, Zondervan, 2004) This is an extremely practical help in understanding how to relate to Muslim neighbors in America.
I am on the leadership team for Refugee Highway Partnership North America (google us). We are part of a global movement with a pretty simple concept: wherever the refugee or forcibly displaced person finds themselves, the church is there to help care for them whether in transition or ‘landed’ in a permanent resettlement situation. We offer a number of ways to be encouraged, find help/networking, learn from our online media or in-person (when available) regional or national gatherings.