"I was a stranger and you welcomed me."
(Matthew 25:35)

WELCOMING THE STRANGER

A ministry with immigrants and refugees

2009 International Dinner

The 2009 International Dinner was held on October 10, 2009 at the Christian Life Center 3100 Galloway Road, Bensalem, PA 19020 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. If you didn't attend, you missed great food and excellent entertainment.

Welcoming the Stranger’s New Status

After ten years under the careful parenting of the Lower Bucks Center for Church and Community (LBCCC), Welcoming the Stranger has come of age! Welcoming the Stranger, with the full blessing of LBCCC, is now a fully independent, IRS-approved, 501 ( c ) (3) non-profit corporation.

Welcoming the Stranger began in 1999 as an outreach program of LBCCC. Its mission over the past ten years has remained the same: to show Christ’s love to immigrants and refugees through the teaching of English, Computer Skills, and Citizenship Training. The ministry has grown to the point where it has seemed advisable for Welcoming the Stranger to form its own board of directors and operate independently from LBCCC. Welcoming the Stranger, Inc. and the Lower Bucks Center for Church and Community are now two distinct organizations, but we will still continue to support each other and cooperate on many ventures. Fund raising will be carried out separately.

Though April 1, 2009 was the official date when Welcoming the Stranger became independent, a celebration of this new stage in WTS’s journey will be held at the annual International Dinner, to be held on Saturday October 17, 2009.

It was the Lower Bucks Center for Church and Community that gave birth to Welcoming the Stranger. The child has matured. We go forward together as partners in ministry.

Sturgis Poorman
Executive Director
Welcoming the Stranger, Inc.

 

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