We have been updating you on the refugee resettlement program since it abruptly changed on January 20, 2025.
As of Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025 we received more devastating news that our contract to resettle refugees was terminated.
Here’s a refresher on what’s been happening to the refugee resettlement program:
- On October 1, 2024, Arrive Ministries signed a contract with the federal government to provide resettlement services for 550 refugees.
- On January 20, 2025, an Executive Order paused new refugee arrivals, pending a 90-day review period.
- On January 24, a funding suspension was issued, including funds for refugees who had already arrived and were still within their case management period.
- On February 25, a Federal judge granted a preliminary block to the ban of refugee resettlement. (Pacito v. Trump)
- On February 27, the U.S. State Department prematurely ended its review period and issued termination notices to all ten national resettlement agencies that operate as part of this 45-year bipartisan-supported program. We are devastated to learn this news.
- We are closely watching what happens with the existing federal cases and ask you to join us in praying that the U.S. can continue to be a place of refuge for persecuted people.
Despite the consecutive blows we have received over the past six weeks, Arrive Ministries’ mission will not change. We exist to see life transformation for refugees, immigrants, and the church.
We stand proud and thankful for the 12,108 men, women, and children we have welcomed with the love of Jesus since 1988. We will not stop advocating for refugee resettlement as an expression of God’s command to welcome the stranger.
