Our Mission

Journey Home Community is a Christian ministry that seeks to share Jesus’ love by serving refugee claimant families in Metro Vancouver.

Background Info on Refugees:

There are three ways for refugees to come to Canada:

• Government sponsored – about 7500 annually,
• Privately sponsored – about 3000-4000 annually, and
• Refugees claiming asylum – about 23,000 annually (top country of origin in 2006 was Mexico).

BC receives approximately 900 government-sponsored refugees annually of which many settle in Burnaby (top countries of origin are Afghanistan, Sudan, Iran, Colombia, and Indonesia).

Some 1000 refugee claimants arrive in Metro Vancouver annually.