Lutheran Social Ministry of the Southwest, in participation with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Church World Service, and the Department of Economic Security, provides resettlement opportunities to refugees admitted to the United States from all over the world. For our purposes, a refugee is a political exile who has been granted asylum in the United States. Refugees have been forced to leave their home countries due to a real fear of death, imprisonment, or other forms of persecution due to religion, race, nationality or political opinion.
Orientation is provided to the policies, rights and daily living in America.
Staff is also available for translation, transportation, employment services, English classes, and tutoring. The goal is to help refugees become self-sufficient within four months of their arrival without using the resources of public assistance. The program provides the refugees with American cultural information and English skills so they can attain self-sufficiency and find or maintain employment.