Migration statistics

• 60 million people forced from home due to war or persecution

• 20 million refugees worldwide• Syria now the country producing most

refugees• 51% of refugees are children• 800,000 migrants expected to enter Germany

in 2015

What should be our response to the European Migration Crisis?

Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works

to the children of man!

Psalm 107 verse 8 and 15 and 21 and 31:

Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures

forever!

Psalm 107:1

Hesed

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so.

Psalm 107:2

Requirement #1: ReceiveRequirement #2: Respond

Four dangerous scenarios

Homeless v4-7

In prisonv10-12

Foolishv17-18

At seav23-27

God’s steadfast love to you

Jesus is the Way to the

Father

Jesus has broken the

power of sin

Saved by grace

With you in the storm

Modelling God’s steadfast love to others

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy, and to

walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8

Hesed

So what about the migration crisis?

• Jacob and his family• Joseph, Mary and Jesus• The Jerusalem church• The Israelite nation

Migration in the bible:

So what about the migration crisis?

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner [Ger] residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners

in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

So what about the migration crisis?

(Micah 6:8)

Administer true justice; show mercy [Hesed] and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow

or the fatherless, the foreigner [Ger] or the poor.Zechariah 7:9-10

Act justlyLove mercy (Hesed)

So what about the migration crisis?

(Micah 6:8)

Act justlyLove mercy (Hesed)

Walk humbly

What can we do?• Support ‘Children on the Edge’• Pray– Repentance– Wisdom– Our Mission

• Offer to be a befriender (email me!)• Be wise – know God!