Welcoming Refugees
We are dedicated to warmly welcoming, serving, and loving refugees arriving in the Seattle area, in the same way Jesus loved us.
Everyone deserves the feeling of home.
Imagine being uprooted and only being able take a single suitcase filled with all your belongings. That is the common story of many refugees. BelPres understands the present refugee crisis as a part of God’s mission to heal his broken world. That’s why we are dedicated to warmly welcoming, serving, and loving refugees arriving in the Seattle area, in the same way Jesus loved us. This is our opportunity to further God’s kingdom in the lives of those that are unrooted, unsettled and alone.
Refugees arrive from all over the world. We have welcomed families from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Syria, and the Ukraine.
Ways to Welcome our New Neighbors
Transitional Homes Support
Serve with our partner Places of Refuge as they help prep and maintain homes for refugee families to live in. Learn about ways that you can support their ministry financially or through working with them as a volunteer.
Cultural Companion
Cultural Companions are committed volunteers trained to walk alongside a refugee/asylee family for 6 months. You will start primarily by building relationship, helping bridge the gap for the family by assisting them with things like cultural conversations, English practice, resume building, and budgeting. Please sign-up to learn more about this exciting opportunity to partner with our new neighbors.
Voula's Story: Making Bridges
Founder of the ministry, Bridges, in Athens, Greece that serves hundreds of traveling refugees with Jesus' love.
Bruce's Story: Serving Refugees
Bruce was faithful, and it's making an eternal impact.
Brenda's Story: Called To Love
Brenda shares about her faithfulness to follow Jesus which led her to serve refugees.
Fawn’s Story
Long time BelPres congregants and real estate developers, Fawn and her son, Ben, felt moved to use their resources to serve the kingdom of God. In August 2021, they turned an empty home into an opportunity to welcome in a family that needed a home. Watch how their openness to listen to opportunity has provided for hundreds of refugee families a warm and loving welcome to the United States in a safe transitional home.
