UPDATE: read the experiences and reflections of the female Church delegation from CTBI that visited refugee women and children in Greece at the end of May.
- A prayer for refugees and for those who seek to respond to their needs, from Rev Judith Morris, General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Wales.
- The Christian Steki meeting place, run by the Greek Evangelical Church of Thessaloniki, requests prayers for a new centre, reports Rev Judith Morris.
- Rev Judith Morris is reminded of how much Greece is doing to help refugees.
- Two thousand years later and Thessalonians are still a people full of hope writes Rev Judith Morris.
- Clare McBeath, co-principal of Northern Baptist College, on the Exodus story being re-enacted across Europe.
- Clare McBeath retells the story of Ruth and Naomi from her experience of meeting the refugees in Greece
- Clare McBeath on why she was constantly reminded of Luke 9:20, ‘Who do you say I am?‘
- Clare McBeath reflects on her conversation on the Bridges Project in Athens and working with refugees from Syria in the port of Piraeus.
- Anne Browse, President of Methodist Women in Britain, looks back at how the Salvation Army had responded to the first call to help with the large number of refugees who had turned up in Athens.
- Anne Browse, President of Methodist Women in Britain, contemplates making your tent ‘a home from home’.
- Maha Campbell, an elder in the Church of Scotland and one of two Arabic speakers on the delegation, reflects on how the help and care for refugees from the Church in Greece ‘oozes from a fountain of faith in Christ and a love for humanity’.
- Anne Browse (President of Methodist Women in Britain) discovers the universal language of… football.
- Rev Sarah Moore (area president for the United Reformed Church in Cumbria and a CTBI Trustee) writes on glimpsing the twenty-first century version of extreme desperation.
- Anne Browse (President of Methodist Women in Britain) and Judith Morris (Baptist Union in Wales) reflected on the work being done by Greek people in response to the needs of the refugees.
- Isobel Owen (Anglican Alliance for Development Relief and Advocacy) and Sarah Moore (United Reformed Church) discussed the Salvation Army team in Athens which prepares clothes and handles supplies for refugees.
- Rev Kathryn Viner, minister of Malone Presbyterian Church in Belfast, describes the Naomi Project in Thessaloniki offering kindness, dignity and support.
- Cecilia Taylor-Camara, Secretary to the Office of Migration and Policy of the Conference of Catholic Bishops for England and Wales, recounts her experience of the official registration centre in Samos and the ‘wild’ Eko camp in Thessaloniki.
- Anne Browse, President of Methodist Women in Britain, reports on her encounter at the Eko camp in Thessaloniki.
