january 4, 2015 – second sunday after christmas...
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On January 6, the Episcopal Church celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, which be-gins the six-week season of Epiphany. Epiphany recognizes the manifestation of the divine in Jesus, the Christ and recalls the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to escape the tyranny of King Herod, who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem.
Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus were refugees.
The Holy Family’s experience is mirrored today in the plight of more than 50 mil-lion displaced persons worldwide, including nearly 17 million refugees. Many are in camps in places such as Rwanda, Kenya and Jordan, hoping that someday it will be safe enough to return to their communities. Some, however, find that they must journey to a new country to begin again. For 70,000 refugees in 2014, that journey brought them to the United States.
For the first four weeks of Epiphany (Jan. 11 – Feb. 1), Episcopal Migration Minis-tries is offering free, video-based lesson plans, available on the Lesson Plans That Work website (http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/lessons) under “Special Lessons.”
Copyright © 2015 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society | www.sermonsthatwork.com
On January 6, the Episcopal Church celebrates the Feast of the Epiphany, which be-gins the six-week season of Epiphany. Epiphany recognizes the manifestation of the divine in Jesus, the Christ and recalls the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt to escape the tyranny of King Herod, who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem.
Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus were refugees.
The Holy Family’s experience is mirrored today in the plight of more than 50 mil-lion displaced persons worldwide, including nearly 17 million refugees. Many are in camps in places such as Rwanda, Kenya and Jordan, hoping that someday it will be safe enough to return to their communities. Some, however, find that they must journey to a new country to begin again. For 70,000 refugees in 2014, that journey brought them to the United States.
For the first four weeks of Epiphany (Jan. 11 – Feb. 1), Episcopal Migration Minis-tries is offering free, video-based lesson plans, available on the Lesson Plans That Work website (http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/lessons) under “Special Lessons.”
JANUARY 4, 2015 – SECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
EPIPHANY VIDEO SERIES FROM EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
JANUARY 4, 2015 – SECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
EPIPHANY VIDEO SERIES FROM EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
(Still image from EMM video, www.episcopalchurch.org/emm)(Still image from EMM video, www.episcopalchurch.org/emm)
The journey of a refugee is never easy. Someday these journeys may no longer be necessary; someday persecution and violence may cease to drive displacement and rob refugees of their communities and nations.
Until that day, please join the #ShareTheJourney campaign with Episcopal Migra-tion Ministries to work toward safer, brighter futures for refugees. #ShareThe-Journey is a multimedia effort to educate, form and equip Episcopalians to engage in loving service with resettled refugees and to become prophetic witnesses and advocates on behalf of refugees, asylees, migrants and displaced persons through-out the world.
For 75 years, the Episcopal Church has welcomed and supported refugees in the U.S. Working in partnership with Episcopal faith communities as well as with governments, non-government organizations (NGOs) and a network of affiliate offices, Episcopal Migration Ministries provides safe passage, vital services, hospitality and friendship for thousands of refugee families resettling in the U.S. every year.
To learn more about supporting refugee resettlement on a local level, contact Allison Duvall, EMM’s program manager for Church Relations and Engagement, [email protected] or visit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/emm.
The journey of a refugee is never easy. Someday these journeys may no longer be necessary; someday persecution and violence may cease to drive displacement and rob refugees of their communities and nations.
Until that day, please join the #ShareTheJourney campaign with Episcopal Migra-tion Ministries to work toward safer, brighter futures for refugees. #ShareThe-Journey is a multimedia effort to educate, form and equip Episcopalians to engage in loving service with resettled refugees and to become prophetic witnesses and advocates on behalf of refugees, asylees, migrants and displaced persons through-out the world.
For 75 years, the Episcopal Church has welcomed and supported refugees in the U.S. Working in partnership with Episcopal faith communities as well as with governments, non-government organizations (NGOs) and a network of affiliate offices, Episcopal Migration Ministries provides safe passage, vital services, hospitality and friendship for thousands of refugee families resettling in the U.S. every year.
To learn more about supporting refugee resettlement on a local level, contact Allison Duvall, EMM’s program manager for Church Relations and Engagement, [email protected] or visit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/emm.
(Still image from EMM video, www.episcopalchurch.org/emm)(Still image from EMM video, www.episcopalchurch.org/emm)