Several Q-C churches step up to help refugees

Refugees often need more help than other immigrants do and they are often given very little. These churches are helping them learn to live here. - - Donna Poisl

from Quad City Times

A telephone call about two years ago to Broadway Presbyterian Church in Rock Island, asking for someone to take a Burmese refugee to a doctor, turned out to be a life-changing experience for Vikki Blair, the church administrator and outreach director.

Through that office visit and follow-up conversations, she and her husband, Doug, "discovered there were many refugees (from Asia and Africa) living around the church we were not aware of," she said.

Since then, with Blair's leadership, Broadway has developed a major outreach program.
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