Transforming Lives, One Child at a Time

Our Mission:

At Refugee Resources, we serve refugee families in Dallas, Texas, sharing the transformative hope of the Gospel by meeting both physical and spiritual needs.

The Reading Circle equips students and their families with foundation literacy skills while fostering meaningful, Christ - centered mentor relationships.

It is structured to provide our students with individualized instruction from a consistent weekly mentor/literacy coach. Students are informally assessed by his/her mentor and shared with the student as they progress through the decodable books, oral fluency and leveled readers. Each students’ progress is monitored through the program.

The Preschool Circle is a nurturing, weekly program designed for refugee children ages 2-5. Through themed play and caring mentorship, we build early literacy, math, motor, and school readiness skills — laying the foundation for lifelong learning.

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"Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt." 
Deuteronomy 10:19

Every Wednesday afternoon, my work calendar is blocked so that I can gather my own two preschoolers and head to Preschool Circle. My kids call it "Wednesday Friends," and it's one of their favorite activities of the week. Our first stop is to collect 5-year-old Elias* and his 3-year-old cousin Zuri* at the apartment they share. After several rounds of knocking, Elias finally swings the door open with an ear-to-ear grin and says, with a thick accent, "Teacher! I love you!"

All four children are delighted by some unique point of novelty the car ride offers them — for mine, it's sitting in the "way back"; for Elias and Zuri, it's the eccentricities of car seats. After the two-minute commute, the five of us hold hands so that we can safely traverse the parking lot. "But not in a circle!" they all remind each other, recalling our first awkward attempt at this ritual, in which my directive to "hold hands" resulted in no hand left unheld, and we traveled together in more of a duck-duck-goose formation than a setup meant to avoid cars.

Once we arrive, we enjoy some free play — trucks, blocks, Magna-Tiles — and then gather for circle time. We sing a welcome song to each of about ten friends; learn a shape, a color, and a letter of the day; sing a song about the weather; read a book; pray; and read a Bible story. Afterward, we divide into groups and rotate through centers focusing on different skills built around our theme of the day.