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A Big Test
Today I visited Mrs. Selam’s coffee shop again. She was planning a trip to Ethiopia and she wanted to bring some Tigrinya language Bibles with her. She wanted to test the translation out to see if it was good and to see if the people could understand it. She said that not many pastors have
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It’s the Simple Things
Today I visited a refugee family from the DRC. Therese is a single mom with six kids. Her husband recently left her, so my dad was asked to visit and bring her some food and other things. We asked if she had a Bible and we were told that she didn’t have one in Swahili.
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Coffee and a Little Courage
My dad likes to go to coffee shops and sometimes I go with him. One day, we went to a good one in Clarkston that is Ethiopian. Ms. Ayana serves traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremonies there, and it’s a lot of fun. She burns frankincense and everyone is invited to gather together and drink these little
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The Bread from Heaven
Today I visited Manna. She is from Eritrea and she speaks Tigrinya. She owns a restaurant in town that I like to go to, and she makes really good shawarma. It’s one of my favorite foods in Clarkston! This time I asked her if she needed a Bible in her language and she said yes.
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Spiritual Food
Today I visited Imani and her whole family so that I could give them a new Swahili Bible. They are old friends of ours. They used to live in the same apartment complex as we did and would come to our apartment all the time. Her mom recently had a stroke and her back is feeling
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Language Lessons
Nyota is from Tanzania and she came to Clarkston three months ago as a refugee. She has two little girls who are not in school yet. When we arrived at her apartment, we had a little trouble communicating. My dad kept mixing up Malagasy and Swahili for some reason and Nyota was having trouble understanding
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Welcome to America!
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
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Pass It On …
Today I visited Faraja and her family. Faraja’s family and my family go way back. We moved to the Lakes apartments in Clarkston at the same time that they moved there. They were practically our neighbors. Faraja was one of the first people to come to the Bible study that eventually became the Swahili-language church
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A Great Christmas Gift
I had a chance to give a great Christmas gift to a Congolese family last week. Hannah was asking for a Bible in her language, Swahili, for a long time. Her family came from Congo but she was actually born and grew up in the refugee camp in Tanzania. First, she lived in an apartment
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God Has a Plan!
Recently I learned that a refugee is someone who had to leave their home because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. In Haiti, there was a natural disaster-an earthquake-in 2010. A lot of people died and a lot of people had their homes destroyed during that earthquake. Cassandra is a refugee from Haiti. When she
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