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Officials hope to have every Afghan refugee at the Indiana base resettled by the end of January.

They arrived as “guests” to the United States, but now Afghan refugees are calling Indianapolis home.

Officials hope to have every Afghan refugee at the Indiana base resettled by the end of January.

Officials hope to have every Afghan refugee at the Indiana base resettled by the end of January.

5,700 of the 7,200 Afghan evacuees who fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took over this summer have been resettled into new homes. 1,500 Afghans remain on the base.

The U.S. government has been using Camp Atterbury to temporarily house, process and resettle nearly 7,000 people who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took over at the end of August. About 2,500 Afghan evacuees were still waiting to be settled as of Friday morning.

Mt. Sterling First United Methodist Church is not just Montgomery County's drop-off location for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child: the church is also packing boxes during Operation Christmas Child's National Collection Week.