Each year, Savior takes up a special offering on Good Friday to support our neighbors in need. This year, our Good Friday gift will help provide stable housing for recent refugees and immigrants, through World Relief Chicagoland. Newcomers need help with security deposits of first and last months’ rent; and the need for housing is great, as asylum seekers are bussed here. Learn more from the flyer at the Info Table in the lobby at PHCC. You can give any time during Lent: write “Good Friday” in the memo line of your check or select “Good Friday Gift” as the fund on Savior’s online giving page.
Connect with the stories below of those World Relief helps:
Farzana is an Afghan Paralympian who was forced to flee Kabul in August of 2021. As a leader and advocate for women in her country, she was no longer safe. She found herself living in temporary quarters at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. After several months, she was sent to Chicagoland for a better living situation. Because of partners like you, World Relief was able to find a place for her to live that accommodates her mobility devices.
Yomardy left her home in Venezuela to come to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship. Fully intending to return to Venezuela and use her status as National Teacher of the Year, she soon discovered that she was declared an enemy of the state in Venezuela. Her honesty about the conditions in her country meant that she could no longer return to her home. Thanks to partners like you, Yomardy was able to find support and a place to call home here in Chicagoland. Her new dream is to buy a house to be able to welcome others like
her who need a place to call home.
Jerome lived in a refugee camp for 19 years. Can you imagine that? During his time in the camp, Jerome was already working to make a difference and that made him a target. Thankfully, he was selected to be resettled and came to the United States. When he arrived at his first apartment, he was finally able to live in a secure and safe place. He was able to find peace again thanks to people of peace who supported the finding and filling of his new apartment.