Every Campus A Refuge at Guilford College

04/07/2026

Afterschool Tutoring- Spring Break edition! 🌸✨

What do you do when there’s no school or homework? You build community, learn history, move your body, and show up for each other. 💛

Last week was full of connection, creativity, purpose, smiles and laughter:

🎭 Theater fun with the Bending Tree collective from UNCG

⚽ Time on the field with the Guilford College Quakers Men's Soccer

🌿 Learning about the Underground Railroad and what it means to help others- brought to life through team-building activities and our growing kindness chain

🌳 A special tour through the Guilford Woods with Max Carter to visit the URR tree, followed by making kindness rocks to share with others

🍧 Popsicles on the playground, pickleball lessons with Don Kelly and Chris Shields, and a pizza party to close out the week strong!

Huge shoutout to everyone who poured their time, energy, and talents into making this week so meaningful. Especially to New Garden Friends Meeting for sharing such a beautiful space with us. 🌱

This is what welcome looks like. 💫

01/17/2026

We invite you to join us in the High Country for a day of learning, collaboration, and celebrating new arrivals in our community!

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/welcoming-new-arrivals-in-the-high-country-tickets-1978832683826?aff=oddtdtcreator

01/13/2026

🚨Early Bird Registration Ending Soon!🚨

Join us!! Open registration for the North Carolina Pathways Conference: Strengthen, Serve, and Integrate International Communities is here—but the Early Bird special ends January 19!

🎟️ Secure your spot today and register using the link below.
Let’s come together to strengthen, serve, and support international communities across North Carolina. 🌍🤝

http://bit.ly/3NaTHuQ

11/13/2025

🔔SAVE THE DATE!

The NC Pathways Conference will be an intentional time of learning and connection among those who work with and for these communities. Together, we will enhance our expertise to better serve and foster belonging and integration of NC’s refugee and immigrant communities - both longstanding and new.

Expert session facilitators will encourage participants to:

✔️Examine refugees’ and immigrants’ history in NC;
✔️Think creatively about practices of welcome and belonging;
✔️Institute best practices for linguistic justice and in healthcare settings;
✔️Connect and collaborate across regional and sector differences;
✔️Imagine improvements to authentically work with and for longstanding refugee and immigrant communities.

Registration details are forthcoming for the pre-event social, Thursday February 5, 2026, and the NC Pathways Conference, Friday February 6, 2026.

🌟Please save the date and plan to join us in the new year!

10/15/2025

🌟We hope you will join us!

🎟️Link to purchase tickets/donate is in th earticle

Guilfordians and the community are invited to a Friday, Oct. 24, celebration at New Garden Friends Meeting.

10/09/2025

🎉Freedom’s Tree: A Fundraiser and Birthday Celebration for Every Campus a Refuge!

🗓 Friday October 24th at 6:00 pm

📍801 New Garden Rd.

Join us for an evening of hope, community, and impact as we gather to celebrate Every Campus a Refuge turning 10! Your generosity contributes to our work of welcome at Guilford College and in the Greensboro community.

✨ What to expect:
• Live original music
• Inspiring stories
• Delicious food and cake
• Fun and fellowship

🎟 Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freedoms-tree-a-fundraiser-for-every-campus-a-refuge-tickets-1428056127319?aff=oddtdtcreator

💌 Help us get the word out- please tag friends, repost, and spread hope.

🫶🏼Every contribution matters. Every life touched matters. Let’s plant seeds of healing and welcome in the spirit of freedom together.

08/10/2025

We can’t wait to see everyone in 2 weeks from today at Scuppernong Books for a reading for children on the newcomer experience!

Families will enjoy several short readings from some special books about newcomers and have the opportunity to purchase and color the "I Belong in Greensboro" coloring book created by Guilford College students!

Please join us!

https://scuppernongbooks.com/event/
2025-08-23/i-belong-greensboro-every-campus-refuge-event

08/04/2025

Join us on 8/23 at Scuppernong Books for a book reading for children on the newcomer experience!

Families will enjoy several short book readings about newcomers and have the opportunity to purchase and color the "I Belong in Greensboro" coloring book created by Guilford College students!

https://scuppernongbooks.com/event/2025-08-23/i-belong-greensboro-every-campus-refuge-event

05/10/2025

Order your copy using the link below!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfG2lCZ6wOOnuj0hUFJdgok8rtiq9nXwL4num2plXpxTuM_cA/viewform?usp=dialog

Inspired by the beautiful work of the ECAR Chapter at Russell Sage College and their "I Belong in Albany" coloring book, the ECAR at Guilford College Chapter has created their own version: "I Belong in Greensboro" 🎨🖍️

This new coloring book celebrates the diverse communities that call Greensboro home and helps create a warm welcome for newcomers—especially children.

We love seeing chapters inspire one another through creativity and care!

04/21/2025

With heavy hearts and deep gratitude, we at Every Campus A Refuge honor Pope Francis’s life and legacy.

In 2015, Pope Francis called on every parish in Europe to host at least one refugee family— words that sparked the imagination of our founder, Dr. Diya Abdo, and helped birth a movement within higher education rooted in that same concept of radical hospitality. His call echoed across faiths, borders, and traditions, inspiring our belief that campuses, too, could become places of welcome, refuge, and sanctuary.

Pope Francis reminded the world that love must take form in action, and that hospitality is not charity—it is justice.

Even in his final days, he spoke plainly and prophetically—pleading for justice in Gaza, urging compassion for migrants and refugees, and speaking truth to power. We give thanks for his prophetic witness, his courage, and his unwavering call to welcome and shelter the stranger.

May his memory be eternal, and may we continue to answer the call he made so clearly: to open our doors and hearts.

02/27/2025

Grateful to Max Carter this evening for sharing his life experiences, service at Guilford, and insights on Israel and Palestine with our ECAR volunteers after book club! His words shed light on the ongoing need for peace, justice, and awareness of oppression. Conversations like these inspire us to listen, learn, and work toward a more just world. Thank you Max for your time, wisdom, and dedication to truth!