New Beginnings Interdenominational Refugee Sponsorship and Helen Christenson

New Beginnings Interdenominational Refugee Sponsorship Group: The family never showed up, and the New Beginnings Interdenominational Refugee Sponsorship Group was left hanging without any explanations, according to CBC. Co-ordinator Helen Christenson says it been challenging getting answers about their sponsored families from the Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. "When the Trudeau government got their 25,000 refugees they dropped everything and left a lot of things not completed."- Helen Christenson of New Beginnings Interdenominational Refugee Sponsorship After making some phone calls to the ministry, the group was informed that the refugee family chose not to settle in Sault Ste. Marie group spent more than $6,000 on rent and utilities on a rental property that was slated for a Syrian refugee family. Marie. That, too, met with delays. "We were told to just wait, just wait," Christenson said. The group would, however, be on the list to sponsor another family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.