Leigh Road Baptist Church will join more than 200 campaigners outside Parliament on Tuesday to thank the Government, but to also urge it to do more.
Rev Steve Tinnings, associate pastor of the church, told Premier the government deserves to be “celebrated” for its efforts.
On 24th October 2016 parliamentary allies helped secure sanctuary for 750 unaccompanied refugee children.
Alistair Rooms, from the charity Safe Passage that helped facilitate the refugees moving to the UK, told Premier how it was involved in the transfer.
He said: “We were working with a number of young people who were living in tents across the jungle and we were working with them to build up case work on their case and then bring a legal case forward for them to come to the UK.”
The charity’s work caught the attention of Leigh Road Baptist Church.
Rev Tinnings said that, coupled with Premier’s Love Calais Appeal, the church knew it had to get in involved.
He added: “The youth group raised a significant amount of money to help with that appeal.
“That led to a greater awareness of the refugee crisis among the wider church… and so we asked an artist called Mark Stein Adamson if we could exhibit some of his art work around the refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan, which raised awareness across the town of Leigh. “
The church has also been hosting a Syrian refugee family in a flat after it found out the local council committed to bring in 12 refugees but wouldn’t use social…
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