First Baptist Church: Victor Dillon

Victor Dillon: Dillon, 30, is being sponsored by the First Baptist Church in Victoria, which is how Hildegard Horie, a persistent woman in her 70s, first heard about his story. , according to Times Colonist. Dillon was dressed in a black coat, given to him by a friend who picked him up at the Vancouver International Airport, a Vancouver Whitecaps scarf and a white tuque. When Victor Dillon, a Liberian refugee who has spent more than 20 years in a refugee camp in Ghana, stepped off the ferry at the Swartz Bay terminal Saturday night, he headed straight into the arms of the North Saanich woman who fought to get him into Canada. Its been a very long journey, Dillon said after being greeted by Horie and other members of the church. The trip was not easy but I m so happy. I m grateful. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.