Here’s an idea:  There are over 300,000 Christian churches in the United States.  How about each church sponsor ONE refugee family from Syria?    Each church should welcome that family to America.  The congregation should help them find a place to live.  Help them get a job to support themselves.  Treat them the save way you would treat a new preacher coming to your church:   Take them meals.  Visit them and get to know them as PEOPLE.  Let them get to know you.

You do not have to share their faith, nor do you have to impose yours on them.  Instead, SHOW them what Christianity is all about.  SHOW them that the Parable of the Good Samaritan was not just a story.  SHOW them what America really stands for.

Here is what will happen:

(1) WE will find out that they are really not that different from us after all.  All they want is a better place to raise their families without fear of persecution. And once we find common ground, we can start to form true friendships between peoples and nations.

(2) They will see what TRUE CHRISTIANS really are all about.  When and if they return to their country, they will take stories of American Hospitality and kindness back with them.  Either way, word will get back to the Middle East that the United States not only talks the talk of Liberty and Freedom, we stand behind it as well.

(3) By getting to know them personally, any bad apples among them will stand out like sore thumbs.  Terrorists won’t try to sneak in this way because they know they will be caught.  In every terrorist incident to date, haven’t all of the terrorists isolated themselves from their neighbors?  And haven’t the neighbors who did actually interact with them realize that something was off with them?  Instead of just a few isolated neighbors, imagine an entire congregation befriending a single family.  That avenue of entrance for terrorists will be closed.

Isn’t this much better than leaving them helpless in a war-torn country, where all they know and hear about America is that we are evil?