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In 2000 the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) designated June 20 as an annual opportunity "to remember the world’s refugees on their special day."
LIRS provides the following resources to help you observe the day as an individual, congregation, organization, or community. Take a moment, take an hour, take a day to learn more about refugees, celebrate their successes, and pray for refugees around the world.
Resources for Worship
Resources for Advocacy
- Advocacy Postcard — Print on any color card stock and send to your members of Congress, urging them to promote laws that welcome refugees.
- Advocacy Toolkit — Incorporate advocacy into your observance of World Refugee Day with guidance and resources from this toolkit.
A Prayer for Refugees
Our Gracious Lord,
There are many in Your world today who have been forced from their homes by persecution and violence.
Keep them in your constant care, and bring them to a place of safety.
Be the Good Shepherd to refugees who are in flight. Guide them to the green pastures of safety.
Be the Everlasting Father to refugees who have lost home and loved ones. Lead, protect and provide for them.
Be the Great Physician to refugees who are suffering. Grant them healing and hope.
Be the Hiding Place to refugees who are languishing in camps. Shelter their souls as well as their bodies.
Be the Deliverer to refugees who have been able to return home. Restore their lives so that those who have sown in tears may reap in joy.
Be the Wonderful Counselor to refugees who have been resettled. Help them find their way in a new land.
Be the Giver of all good gifts to those who serve refugees. Empower them to do justice and love mercy and walk humbly with You.
Be the Lord of lords to all the earth, that those who rule would do so in justice and righteousness, and no one would have to become a refugee anymore.
We ask these things in the precious and powerful name of Jesus. Amen.
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