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Refugee Sponsorship Update
Update from The Refugee Sponsorship Ad Hoc Committee The joint committee (members of MacNeill and Burlington Baptist Church) continued to meet weekly until December 16. We then took a two week break and re-convened on January 6. This is the current lay of the land:...
Refugee Sponsorship Update
The joint Burlington Baptist Church (BBC)/ MacNeill Baptist Church (MBC) Ad Hoc Committee has been meeting weekly to work on all the details of the application and the whole process of sponsorship. Finances: To date, MacNeill's financial pledges amount to $23000. In...
Refugee Committee Report
Ad Hoc Refugee Committee Report to Congregation November 22, 2015 Members: Al Palin, (Chair); Heather Hobbs, (Secretary); Louise Adnams, Mary Clark-Jackson, Sandy Palin, Gary Purdy and Barb Ridley. (Glenys Magill has provided considerable assistance.) This ad hoc...
The Refugee Crisis: Our Response?
The Middle East Refugee Crisis: What will MacNeill’s Response Be? A Report from the congregational meeting of October 4, 2015 Thank you to the goodly number who came out to this meeting. Others were unable to attend, but expressed interest in ‘doing something’ as our...
Info about Refugee Sponsorship
Here is a document that Mary Jackson was able to get from Alex Johnstone's campaign office with an overview of refugee sponsorship. Refugee Sponsorship For a lot of information about sponsoring Syrian refugees, please visit the Lifeline Syria website. In particular,...
