$23,291
Mortgage: $500,000
Recent updates
- Closet installation, tax exemption 2025-10-12
- Summer update: Always need help 2025-08-09
- House projects update 2025-07-19
- First refugee arrived!! 2025-05-24
- Refugee House needs update: Refugees arrive this week!! 2025-05-08
- First look at Refugee House! 2025-04-05
- Last chance for triple match (for Refugee House downpayment!) 2025-03-27
- DONE DEAL! We have a Refugee House! 2025-03-16
- Refugee House – offer submitted! Pray 2025-02-02
After two and a half years of prayer, fundraising, planning, and paperwork, we have finally purchased a refugee house! THANK YOU to everyone who prayed with us, gave us practical help and real estate and legal advice, and gave a gift to help us fund this home.
- It's a 4 bedroom house
- Basement is a walk backing onto a forest
- It's an end unit so minimal annoyance to neighbours
- Finally, the House shares a fence with a local school where refugee kids can walk without having to cross one street!
A long-term safe house and first (Canadian) home for refugees
When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Jesus Network and the Afghan Church, with the support of many generous donors, began the process of sponsoring many Christian Afghan refugee families to Canada. Before the crisis, the Afghan Church was on track to sponsor 3 families; after the crisis, they are now on track to sponsor 75 families.
Housing is a major challenge when refugee families arrive
When a refugee family arrives, we have to secure safe and stable housing for them. The main challenges are:
- We often only have days' notice that a family will be getting arriving, so we have to scramble to find an appropriate home.
- Sometimes a family is delayed at the last moment and we end up paying rent for an empty apartment.
- Every family has different housing needs.
- As much as possible, we want to place families near necessary social and support services, and near each other.
- Cost of rent has been skyrocketing.
A supporter suggested the idea a refugee house: a permanent, long-term safe house where families can stay when they arrive in Canada until permanent housing is found. It would let us focus on helping the families get settled (e.g. get health cards, register for school, etc.) without the hectic scramble to immediately rent and furnish an apartment each time a family arrives.