Reflections From the GC2 Summit: Evangelicals and Refugees

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Near the end of 2015, the attention of the world was focused on the Syrian refugee crisis. Drowned children, desperate parents, displaced families, and United Nations camps filled the news. American Christians responded with divided voices; some called for us to help provide relief, others preferred greater caution.

How should Evangelicals respond?

An Outlandish Thought

In the midst of this we had an outlandish thought: What if we could get Evangelical leaders in a room to consider how the church should respond to the refugee crisis? Even if we could, we thought that we would see 20-30 show up, at best. What if we followed that meeting up with a public meeting? In that case we thought we might be able to get 150 people in a room. Oh, and we wanted to pull all of this together with just a few weeks notice.

We were wrong. Really wrong. And we couldn’t be happier about it.

We didn’t get 20-30 leaders in a room. No. We had 125 national and leaders together in a room. And that’s only because we shut off registration a few days before the event as the room was at max capacity. And we didn’t get 150 people in the room for a public meeting. No. We had over 500 people in the room, not to mention more than 1,000 who were watching online.

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