We had our first english class at Mission Adelante for the Bhutanese last Tuesday. It was a great time. We started a new curriculum and structure that I think will really help the effectiveness of both learning english and building relationships.

The refugees are on financial government assistance for about 8 months. They also receive community development assistance from local government funded organizations for a number of services including preparing their new homes with furniture and all the necessities to live. Unfortunately….

Mission Adelante, an urban mission to Hispanic Immigrants in KCK, has extended their outreach through a pilot ministry to a new immigrant population: the Bhutanese refugees.

read about Mission Adelante and the new pilot ministry

The Bhutanese refugees number over 100,000 and have lived in bamboo tents in seven refugee camps along the southeast border of Nepal for over 17 years…and now, they have come here to Kansas City.

read about the Bhutanese refugees

The ancient Greeks used two words for time, chronos and kairos. Chronos refers to chronological time while kairos refers to a moment in time in which something special happens.

read about our kairos moment …