We are preparing to sponsor another refugee family, this time from Syria. Barbara Wood, Arvo Alfred and I met yesterday afternoon with a Syrian couple who have 3 children here - the family was brought here about a year ago under the Government Assisted Refugee (GAR) program. The family has an adult son and an adult daughter in Lebanon and they are under threat of being deported back to Syria where the men would almost certainly be forced into military service - both son and daughter are married with a 1 year old each. The family here is desperately seeing a sponsor so that the families can be re-united and so that the families still in Lebanon can be brought to safety.

World Renew (the Relief and Development arm of the Christian Reform Church in Canada) has agreed to be the Sponsorship Agreement Holder for the families. There is a mass of paperwork to be prepared and we need a volunteer translator to help with that work, starting immediately. If you can suggest anyone, please let me know as soon as possible.