B92, a Serbian news source, recently reported, "Serbia is currently home to 97,000 refugees and 200,000 IDPs from Kosovo, it was stated today on the occasion of World Refugee Day. Danijela Popović-Roko, president of the Refugee Commissariat, told a press conference that the UNHCR had, in the second half of last year, classed Serbia as being in the top five countries worldwide in terms of having the most long-term refugee crisis."  (Click here for full article) 

Some of these families live in government housing, old hotels, with extended family or are still moving from place to place.  In just about every case, there is a sense of homelessness, of being unsettled.  Many cannot return to their homes in the other countries - they were destroyed, taken over by another family or the situation is just too fragile for them to return.  Some have started new lives, getting jobs, getting children settled in school.  Others still struggle with trying to find their place. 

Please pray for these families to have peace wherever they are.  Pray for them to find their true home in the Kingdom of God.  Pray for opportunities to share hope and peace with refugees and IDPs. 

"Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad." 2 Corinthians 5:1-10