I gave a Kinyarwanda Bible to a refugee family today. The dad was from Burundi and the mom was from Rwanda. They have four children. About five months ago they came from a refugee camp in Burundi where all their kids were born.

They said they didn’t have a lot of stuff in the refugee camp. So, we also brought them some clothes and shoes. And I could tell the kids weren’t really used to wearing shoes. They kept playing with their shoes the whole time we were there. They had on mismatched pairs, sometimes two left feet or two right feet. One kid had the right foot shoe on his left foot and the other kid had the left foot shoe on his right foot! I could tell they weren’t used to wearing shoes, and it was a new thing for them to have lots of shoes.

In the same way, they were so happy about getting a Bible in their language. We are used to having Bibles everywhere. When we go to church, there are lots of Bibles around every chair or pew. But for them, Bibles are rare and they treasure them. They really liked their new shoes and they really liked their Kinyarwanda Bible.