Greece

Two years ago, a group from First Baptist Church of Columbia traveled to Greece to work with a partnership there that included serving individuals in a refugee camp. The team, the church, and the partnership in Greece never would have imagined that the two subsequent yearly trips would be cancelled due to a worldwide pandemic…

We see refugees all the time — in the news. Most often we skip over these unknown people in distant lands, thinking,”Sad, not my problem.” But this summer, two South Carolina Baptist volunteers brought away a different view after a month of ministering to refugees crowded into a camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.

Submitted by David Lee, Lexington Baptist Association, while serving at a Refugee Camp in Lesvos, Greece The Lord allowed me to share the Gospel with Muslims refugees every day during our mission trip and sometimes multiple times a day. A lot of those encounters happened when we were serving the refugees. Some of the refugees