Welcome, trust, mutual transformation, celebration, and prayer:  these values are central to the wellbeing of the Kinbrace community which engages a warm welcome for and with people who are forcibly displaced and seeking refuge and protection.   Now, we are writing about them in the new Kinbrace’s Core Values:  A Primer that will explore a values-based approach to growing transformative communities in a world of forced displacement.  We need your help.

Why this primer?

In a world with more than 80 million people forcibly displaced, there is urgent need for practices of welcome, trust, mutual transformation, celebration, and prayer – core values that lead to transformative communities rather than the polarized entrenchment, walls, and othering so prevalent in our world.

Anika Barlow has lived in the Kinbrace community for three and a half years with people seeking refugee protection.  Now she is using her gifts of storytelling and illustrating to write a primer to further inspire transformative communities where refugee claimants and Canadians flourish together.

When Anika is done writing in December 2020, you’ll hold and read a short, one-of-a-kind primer that guides you and your community toward becoming neighbours in that rare, real, and raw place where forced displacement meets the place called home.  

How you can help…

Invite your friends, your church community, interested others to donate with you toward the total $15,000 cost. Sponsor a month, a page, or the whole project!

$250 sponsors a page
$7500 sponsors half the primer
$15,000 inspires transformative communities

You’ll receive a charitable receipt for your donation.