PUBLISHED Thursday, October 29, 2015; 8:17 am

UPDATED Thursday, October 29, 2015; 5:34 pm

The Newtown/Danbury unit of Church Women United is planning its annual World Community Day celebration. This year’s event will be Friday, November 6, in The Great Room of Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street. All are invited.

The program will loosely follow the international 2015 World Community Day theme of “Our Journey Together.”

Coffee and light refreshments will be served at 6:30 pm, and the evening’s keynote will begin at 7.

Chris George, executive director of Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), will be the guest speaker.

IRIS is a refugee resettlement organization based in New Haven, and is the Connecticut affiliate of Episcopal Migration Ministries and of the Immigration and Refugee Program of Church World Service. In partnership with the US government and many non-governmental donor agencies, IRIS settles approximately 200 refugees each year.

Mr George’s program will cover refugees in the United States. It will focus on refugee resettlement in Connecticut.

A related program is being planned by Newtown Congregational Church. The public is also invited to “Global World: Global Church” on Saturday, November 21. A conversation on displacement and the refugee crisis will be led by United Church of Christ Global Ministries Intern Ariel Royer.

Ms Royer will present on her experiences as a global missionary in Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, with special insight into the Syrian refugee crisis and the situation of Iraqi and Palestinian refugee communities.

Lunch and table conversations will follow the presentation. That program will run from 11 am until 1:30 pm.

To prepare for Ms Royer’s program, or to continue the conversation Mr George will begin with the Church Women United program, the Reverend Caroline Hamilton-Arnold will be at Starbucks on Tuesday, November 17.

The transitional associate pastor for Newtown Congregational Church, Rev Hamilton-Arnold invites anyone interested to join her what she is calling “informal, come-and-go conversation about the causes of displacement” between 7 and 9 pm at the 34 Church Hill Road coffee house.

 For additional information about CWU World Day of Prayer, call Darlene Jackson at 203-426-5192.

For information about “Global World: Global Church,” call Newtown Congregational Church at 203-426-9024.