1. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees. Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer. Isa 16:3,4 Going Deeper - refugees

2. 1) 2m refugees in 2013, around 5m today 2) More than half the Syrian population is displaced 3) 55% of refugees and IDPs are children (so, about 5.5 million) ** IDP = “Internally Displaced Person” … someone driven from home but still in the same country 4) There are many more female than male refugees from Syria 5) The pace of exodus is increasing 6) People groups include Sunni Muslims, Turcoman, Alawites, Kurds, Yazidi and Christians 7) Almost half the Lebanese population is now believed to be refugees (formal or otherwise) 8) Turkey now has 2m Syrian refugees, with only 1 in 8 in the 25 camps 9) Refugees were staying in region in hopes of going home; now moving further to find better life for children 10) “Self-resettling” in Europe – 265,000 illegal crossings in 2014, and 325,000 by September of this year

4. What % of the UK population are refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons? 0.24% 117,000 refugees (successful asylum applicants) 36,383 pending asylum cases (top 3 nationalities are Eritrean, Pakistani and Syrian) 16 stateless persons

8. If the world’s refugees were a nation …

11. Bourj el Barajneh, a refugee “camp” in its third generation

12. Sustainable Development Goal 16 “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”

13. refugees in the Bible Adam and Eve … Cut off from home, work, lifestyle, religion. New identity (clothes).

14. refugees in the Bible Cain … A restless wanderer

15. refugees in the Bible Abraham, Isaac, Jacob … Famine

16. Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon. ‘Make up your mind,’ Moab says. ‘Render a decision. Make your shadow like night – at high noon. Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees. Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you; be their shelter from the destroyer.’ Isaiah 16:2-4 (NIV)

17. Judah Moab

18. refugees in the Bible Israel and Judah Israel from 740 BC Judah taken 586 BC

19. refugees in the Bible Jesus “Out of Egypt I have called my son”

20. refugee status your Foreigners and strangers here on earth … fellow citizens with all those who seek the Kingdom built on the cornerstone of Christ

21. credits UNHCR.org.uk, published statistics (nb their official figures always grossly underestimate the true number of Syrian refugees due to under-reporting) The Conflict in Syria: Understanding and Avoiding Regional Spillover Effects by William Young et al, Rand Corporation Syrian Refugee Crisis in Maps, edmaps.com Refugees and displacement (various resources), ODI.org Map of Moab sites from http://www.bible-history.com/geography/ancient- israel/ot/plains_of_moab.html Google maps Cover photo, © World Vision International 2015