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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From the day Mara found out about Reading Circle, she became relentless in her desire to get into the program. God moved my heart at the beginning of the spring of 2026 to become a mentor, especially after finding out she was next up on the waitlist. Having already formed a relationship with her family, I was very excited to be able to share stories about Jesus and God’s plan of redemption with her every week.

Mara’s family is a blend of South Asian identities, with two different languages spoken at home besides English. However, it’s not in any of those three languages that Mara has learned to pray and read religious texts, but in ancient Arabic, a language she does not understand beyond a few common religious phrases. (Even those, she does not know the actual meaning of, but only the situations in which they should be used.) Nonetheless, most days of the week she is expected to report to “Arabic school,” which does not teach Arabic but rather teaches children to recite the sounds found in the Qur’an perfectly, with even the slightest error in pronunciation counted as failure. It was out of this context that Mara entered Reading Circle, and she immediately tried to treat it the same way: as a place where religious performance would be rewarded and anything less than perfection would be punished.