Leigh Road Baptist Church will join more than 200 campaigners outside Parliament on Tuesday to thank the Government, but to also urge it to do more.
Rev Steve Tinnings, associate pastor of the church, told Premier the government deserves to be "celebrated" for its efforts.
On 24th October 2016 parliamentary allies helped secure sanctuary for 750 unaccompanied refugee children.
Alistair Rooms, from the charity Safe Passage that helped facilitate the refugees moving to the UK, told Premier how it was involved in the transfer.
He said: "We were working with a number of young people who were living in tents across the jungle and we were working with them to build up case work on their case and then bring a legal case forward for them to come to the UK."
The charity's work caught the attention of Leigh Road Baptist Church.
Rev Tinnings said that, coupled with Premier's Love Calais Appeal, the church knew it had to get in involved.
He added: "The youth group raised a significant amount of money to help with that appeal.
"That led to a greater awareness of the refugee crisis among the wider church... and so we asked an artist called Mark Stein Adamson if we could exhibit some of his art work around the refugee camps of Lebanon and Jordan, which raised awareness across the town of Leigh. "
The church has also been hosting a Syrian refugee family in a flat after it found out the local council committed to bring in 12 refugees but wouldn't use social housing to make it happen.
Rev Tinnings said: "We're fortunate to own a flat that just coincidentally had a tenant moving out at the time, and we felt inspired to put our money where our mouth is... and invite the family to live in the church's house."
But the church's new found passion for the tacking the plight of refugees didn't stop there
Church members will Safe Passage on Tuesday to ask the government for more support for refugees still waiting for a place to call home.
Rooms told Premier that transfers have slowed down significantly.
He said: "Since that day that amount of time it's taken to do transfers for some of the children who are still out in northern France have increased to a matter of months.... we know last year that was made in a matter of days."
Rooms has called for the process to take weeks, instead of months.
Rev Tinnings told Premier after seeing first-hand the challenges that refugees face, it's a Christian's duty to get involved.
He said: "God has a special heart for the vulnerable and the poor and there are so many people trying to cross Europe from war zones and places where incredible persecution is happening.
"We have a responsibility to remember as Jesus was a refugee others too are going through similar terrifying ordeals."
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