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Reaching Refugees with the Gospel

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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A Texas pastor originally from Iraq is urging the Church to get out of politics amid the swirling debate about travel bans and do the work of ministering to refugees because "God is sending the nations here."

Jalil Dawood, lead pastor at Arabic Church of Dallas and founder of World Refugee Care, has just released a new book he wrote to inspire other Christians to reach out to the millions of refugees in need, both in the U.S. and overseas.

"There is a lot of misinformation about how to deal with refugees [today]," Dawood said in a recent interview with The Christian Post about his own journey of being a refugee, which he recounts in detail in The Refugee: A Story of God's Grace on One Man's Road to Refuge.

"God is sending the nations here. And God wants us to reach out to those people," he emphasized.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-refugee-iraq-tells-american-church-dont-politicize-refugee-crisis-share-gospel-188550/#psUhvLFBBC9WviSp.99

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