WELCOME
This site supports the work of EMBRACE in building a welcoming community by providing background information, details of events and ideas for response. Please browse through the pages and if you require further information, contact us.
LATEST January 2012
English Language Classes
Many English classes are starting again this month. We have compiled a list of those being run in the Belfast area which you can access here. Please pass this information to anyone you know who may be interested in attending a class. If you know of classes which are being run and are not on our list please let us know by contacting aneta@embraceni.org or call Aneta on 07731378037.
Hear My Voice: migrant story leaflets
Hear my voice is a series of 4 leaflets which recount stories of people who’ve come here and their experience of welcome and settling. Hard copies are available on request from our office and electronic versions can be accessed here:
Hear My Voice 1 As Simple as ‘Hello’?
Hear My Voice 2 Overcoming language barriers
Hear My Voice 3 A teenager’s Story
Hear My Voice 4 Finding Direction
Prayer
The January Prayer sheet is available to view and download here. This month the focus is on communication and the challenges to building relationships where there is no common language.
Please use this sheet to inform your prayers.
Prayer sheets from previous months can be accessed here.
Latest News sheet
The winter 2011/12 EMBRACE News sheet, Building a Welcoming Community is available to download here, or as a hard copy on request from our office. This edition carries news of the BBC Lifeline Appeal on behalf of the EMBRACE Emergency Fund and the new UKBA holding centre in Larne along with other developments and news relating to migration.
BUILDING A WELCOMING COMMUNITY
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I was a stranger…
Northern Ireland is becoming richer in its diversity of culture and ethnicity as it becomes home to an increasing number of people from other countries. Some come seeking asylum, others to fill job vacancies or to study in our universities and colleges. There are also people from minority ethnic backgrounds who have always lived here. The needs of each are as individual as the experiences each person brings, but common to all is the desire to be safe and to know the acceptance of the local community.
and you made me welcome
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EMBRACE seeks to equip the church to fulfil its call to welcome our new neighbours, by providing information, training, materials and channels for practical help. In doing this we seek to build a community which welcomes and respects diversity. See About Us for a fuller description of our activities.
On this site you will find information relating to the situation for people seeking asylum, refugees, migrant workers and people from resident minority ethnic backgrounds within Northern Ireland. There are also links to related sites. Please use our Contact Us link for further information or to comment on this site.
‘I was a stranger and you made me welcome’
Matthew 25:35
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The inclusion of links to organisations in any section is not an endorsement of these groups. We cannot take responsibility for information contained on other websites.
