Refugee Week 2024

You can find both worship resources and links to a wide variety of other worship resources below. These include links, in the list of online worship materials, to past Refugee Sunday/Sanctuary Sunday service materials provided by a range of Christian groups and denominations. Resources prepared for 2024  aren’t yet out, but will be on the linked pages when they have been released. You can also find inspiration in what is already there.

We will be providing:

  • a prayer and prayer PowerPoint
  • thoughts for preachers based on the Revised Common Lectionary readings for the day. It’s a day when there are several options for the Old Testament readings: the Psalms in each case (9, 107, 133) have particularly strong connections to the ‘Our Home’ theme
  • suggested activities for children and young people

Resources for prayer

Click here for our list of online worship materials from a variety of sources.

Click here for all the materials to put on a refugee-related prayer service – including liturgies, reflections, and prayer stations, with thanks to the Revd Ben Kautzer.

Click here for a PowerPoint prepared for an online (or could be used in church) reflective time of prayer for refugees.

Resources for study and preaching

Click here for our list of Bible readings, study courses, videos, and theological reflections.

Click here for Churches’ and church leaders’ statements on refugees and forced migration.

Click here for sermons about refugees and asylum seekers.