May 15, 2025

Dear Saints,

To participate, visit https://fundraise.worldrelief.org/fundraiser/6378661?is_new=true

Thank you for joining World Relief’s mission, stepping into the world’s greatest crises with boldness and compassion. In partnership with the church, we have walked alongside refugees and immigrants—creating communities of welcome where families rebuild their lives with dignity and hope. As a result, our new neighbors are becoming our co-workers, students, church members, and friends. 

My name is Grant Van Leuven, and as a bi-vocational pastor (see www.puritanchurch.com), I have had the privilege to be working for World Relief SoCal’s San Diego Office as Site Manager since December of 2024, and am thankful for how committed we are to continuing to serve our refugee and immigrant neighbors.  It is special to my heart as my wife, Fernanda, is from Brazil and over the last seven years of our marriage we walked through getting her green card, citizenship, and voting registration (she just joined me voting last November!), not knowing the Lord would have me working at World Relief!

In particular, your support helps our San Diego County office of World Relief Southern California in 

Please help me support World Relief by making a donation through my page. The process is fast, easy and secure. Thanks so much for your support… and please don’t forget to send this page to any friends you think might be interested in donating!

Here are resources of what I’ve been involved with in recent events and presentations:

Welcoming the Stranger: A Biblical Approach to Refugees & Immigration | World Relief SoCal (My presentation for our office’s SD County Coffee Talk this February with pastors and other church leaders)

Faith, Immigration & The Church: Panel Discussion with Local Leaders | World Relief SoCal (What followed the above by amazing church and community leaders led by our Development Director, Jane Register)

Immigration and Scripture – YouTube (A playlist on my church’s page with a worship sermon and Sabbath class PowerPoint presentations by me as well as Good Neighbor Team introduction and training presentations by one of my WRSoCal colleagues on a Wednesday night)

A Biblical Exploration of Loving the Stranger | Sermons | Coast Vineyard (My guest preaching as a WR rep for a church partnering with and across the road from our Claremont WR office this April)

I also highly recommend this 8-minute video by our Home Office’s VP of Advocacy and Policy, Matthew Soerens: Immigration: Common Questions Answered [2024 Election Ready]