January Social Justice Offering
Jan. 7, 2016Big thanks from our friends at RefugeeOne, the Illinois affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services.St. Luke’s members contributed more than $500 from the January Justice Offering to help refugees rebuild their lives here in Chicago.Interested in learning more about RefugeeOne? Our member, Sara Spoonheim Amit, works there and would be glad to tell you more.
Dec. 17, 2015January’s social justice offering at St. Luke's will be given to RefugeeOne, the Illinois affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. RefugeeOne creates opportunity for refugees fleeing war, terror, and persecution to build new lives of safety, dignity, and self-reliance. The justice offering will be collected Sunday, January 3.Since 1982, RefugeeOne has welcomed more than 16,000 refugees from countless major world crises to Chicago. As the Illinois affiliate of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and the state’s largest full-service refugee resettlement agency, RefugeeOne annually helps approximately 2,500 refugees and immigrants rebuild and improve their lives.With the help of 400 volunteers, RefugeeOne walks alongside refugees on the road to self-reliance: greeting new arrivals at O’Hare Airport, furnishing their first apartments, and providing English language training and job search support. Because hard skills aren’t the only component to success in the U.S., RefugeeOne also provides mental health care, after-school programming, and mentors to help refugees integrate into American society. The ultimate goal of RefugeeOne’s programs is to help refugee families become self-reliant in as few as 6-9 months.