Kim and Marc Wyatt | Research Triangle, N.C.
Kim and Marc Wyatt are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, an eight-county region that wraps the capital city of Raleigh. Kim and Marc have long been involved in engaging displaced peoples with holistic ministry. They began their work as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel in 1996, serving in Thailand and Canada. Learning and applying a posture of hospitality, they assisted with the start-up of Matthew House, a refugee resettlement ministry based in the heart of downtown Toronto. What followed was nothing short of a movement as other similar ministries emerged across Ontario and Quebec.
In 2014, the Wyatts’ missional journey brought them back to their home state of North Carolina, where Kim and Marc steward their gifts and experience to help connect resources and mobilize churches to welcome and love their international neighbors. In October 2015, they established Welcome House Raleigh, shaped after their previous ministries to refugees in Canada. Similar refugee ministries are now underway in other parts of North Carolina and the U.S.
The main goal at Welcome House is to share the love of God in Christ Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. When permanent housing becomes available, the Wyatts and local partners and volunteers furnish it—even providing culturally appropriate groceries—and help their new friends discover their new American neighborhood.
Volunteers from local churches are very important to Kim and Marc’s ministry. These special neighbors are Welcome House guests’ first American friends. Pray that friendship continues to grow in the grace and love of God.
Learn more at www.cbf.net/wyatt.
What We Can Do. . .
Pray for Kim and Marc as they serve on our behalf. Pray especially for recent arrivals from Afghanistan, Congo, Ethiopia and Syria that they will have American friends to help them make sense of this strange new country. Also, pray that residents of Welcome Houses throughout the network will feel the love of God through Christ Jesus in the welcome they receive from each person serving in the ministries.
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