World Refugee Day is on June 20 each year. Join us in prayer, meditation and action as you learn more about the realities refugees face around the world and God’s call for us to respond. Use these resources to mark the day with your congregation, small group, Sunday school or on your own:
Worship resources
- Use this congregational resource PDF which contains Communion liturgy, plus ideas for worship, hymn and scripture suggestions, prayers and children’s time
- Download a video – Racheal’s story – about the experience of a former refugee
- Download a PowerPoint slide on World Refugee Day 2026
- Share this announcement in your bulletin: World Refugee Day – June 20th – World Refugee Day is an opportunity for us to pause our daily life and honour displaced people around the world. It’s a time to celebrate their strength, courage and resilience and also build understanding and empathy for the challenges they face every day. Please join us in prayer for those who have had to flee, and for those who will offer welcome. More information and resources are available at clwr.org/wrd. “You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (Deuteronomy 10:19 NRSV)
- Download a bulletin insert
Activities and books and other resources:
- Activity: Youth role play activity
- Resource: Refugee Mythbusters
- Activity: Host a refugee camp meal instructions
- Resource: Word Refugee day reading list (adults and children)
- Activity: Crossword puzzle
- Activity: Word search
- Activity: Colouring page
- Activity: Forced to Flee, a group simulation on forced migration from our partners at Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Book: Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed (YouTube video of reading)
- Book: From Far Away by Robert Munsch (Free National Film Board adaption)