How churches benefit from the refugee crisis

I'm aware this isn't a popular viewpoint, but just as government funding for Planned Parenthood for "women's health services" allows them to carry on abortions at our expense, government assistance to churches to resettle refugees and immigrants allows the churches to carry on their primary work of evangelization, education, caring for the poor, etc. and still technically follow Jesus' words in Matthew 25. Catholics, Lutherans, Presbyterians, UCC, Baptists, Methodists, Mennonites, and various religious non-profits all take money from the government for their "good works." Being an arm of the federal government may not open any doors in heaven. Where immigration is the topic, I believe churches should keep quiet until they are funding their resettlement ministries with the church's money and their own volunteers.

You'll find some things at "Refugee Resettlement Watch" website harsh to read, but it's the fastest way to figure out which churches (called Volags) get what and how much money they get per refugee (Hint: .more than their costs). It's a starting point to do your own research.

I heard Raymond Arroyo (EWTN) on Fox and Friends today say that the USCCB receives millions to resettle refugees and he sees it as a problem. One of Obama's favorites was a Baptist (in name) charity that received about $280 million in 2014. It's a huge conflict of interest, a Faustian bargain, for churches to get trapped this way. You have to dance with the one who brung you. Obama doubled the in-take of refugees in one year, and now that Trump wants to return it to normal (about 50,000) the churches that contract to resettle refugees are upset.

Several years ago we contributed to Glenn Beck's effort to resettle 149 Iraqi Christians (speakers of Aramaic, the language of Jesus)  in Slovakia.  I checked current news and about 20 of the older members of the group went back to Iraq because they couldn't adjust. 

 http://time.com/3066459/unaccompanied-minor-immigration-border/

 https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/  

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/29/unholy-alliance-christian-charities-profit-1-billion-fed-program-resettle-refugees-40-percent-muslim/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-an-israeli-opened-slovakias-doors-for-iraqi-christian-refugees/
 

Glenn Beck resettles Iraqi Christians in Slovakia

As I’ve said before, I’m all for resettling Christian refugees from the Middle-east. I think I read somewhere that so far, 53 Christians have been admitted to the U.S. even though they are facing genocide—we’ve probably admitted more Muslim terrorists than that. However, how to support this? 

Last night Glenn Beck showed video of his organization (Mercury One) taking 149 Christians out of a refugee camp in Iraq (I think they’d been in the camp 2 years). They contacted 11 countries, including the USA, but only Slovakia would take them. Iraqi Christians are probably descended from the apostles or someone who knew them, as are other Orthodox Christians, so it shouldn’t be an impossible job. They had their last mass with their priest, said good-bye to friends and family, and flew off to a new country, new language, new customs. It was really heart wrenching. 

These were not peasants, they are educated people with careers and homes, now all ripped away. Iraq has been their people’s home for centuries. Their community had a good life in Iraq (as I recall from pre-war days, they were protected by Saddam Hussein who was a secular Muslim). ISIS was threatening to behead them right up to the end, in fact, the first flight was delayed due to intelligence they might be attacked. (Several times Beck mentioned that ISIS was killing the handicapped, although I haven’t seen that report elsewhere. He has a physically challenged daughter, so he’s always very sensitive to that.) It was like watching the frantic flights out of VietNam after U.S. renigged on the treaty agreements. 

Anyway, we had talked before about who could we trust with money to do this? Mennonites? Brethren? Lutheran? Any of the groups we’ve supported in the past? No, plus they all cooperate with World Council of Churches for world relief, which if you’ve ever read their documents is very pro-Muslim (I saw that even in the 1970s). Beck had tried to raise $10,000,000 to do this with listener/member donations, but instead raised $13,000,000. So we knew where to send our help. God bless people like Beck who take enormous risks (he was also Iraq with the camera crew and all the people it took to organize this).

Incidentally, he said a crew from 20/20 went along to film it, but I don’t think he really trusts the MSM to get the story right. We’ll see if it gets more than a few minutes on another news show. It has been reported on Fox and in some Christian on-line publications.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/glenn-beck-johnnie-moore-evacuate-iraqi-christian-refugee-slovakia-152273/#!