Today I visited Samia. She is Congolese but she was living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya for 14 years before she came to Clarkston. She has only lived in America for nine months. She seemed very surprised that we came to visit her. We were actually the first Americans to visit her and to welcome her to the US!

Samia’s son came to America about five years ago, but he lives all the way in Arizona with his family. So, Samia was feeling lonely today and she was so glad we came to visit her. She has a job cleaning the schools at night, but she was a little sick today and wasn’t going to work. We gave her some food donations and I presented her with her very first Swahili Bible.

We also prayed for her and she was really glad about that and she asked us to come back again to pray with her and talk about the Bible with her. She said America is very different and she still has to get used to the new life. But she was grateful to have her very first Swahili Bible and to have made her very first American friends!