The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land

About the Book

There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.

About the Author

Dr. Joseph holds a Doctoral Degree of Theology in Ministry, Master of Arts in Leadership and Management and an Executive Master’s Degree in Peace, Leadership and Governance. He is the Founder and Executive Director for Refugee Empowerment Network, a registered non-profit organization based in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is an international speaker, church planter and a pastor. Dr. Joseph Boomenyo has written this book to reveal the courage, resilience, potential, and ability of refugees to move from being liabilities to assets. The book is packed with stories worth telling, that no one else can tell them better than the person who lived them. Dr. Joseph has been forced to leave his country of origin and habitual residence due to the civil war and lived in a country of asylum as a refugee for twenty years. This man has experienced and seen with his own eyes the misery, vulnerability and plight of refugees living in various refugee camps in African countries. He decided to sacrificially invest his time, spiritual gifts, talents, knowledge, and abilities to contribute to the empowerment of his fellow refugees and other vulnerable people in communities through capacity-building. He calls for collective action, solidarity, and strong partnership in addressing the plight of refugees around the world.