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Remembering Our Roots
A refugee family that recently came from Burundi needed a Bible. They speak Swahili and so they asked me to bring them a Swahili Bible for their whole family. The parents were really glad to get it. The father was worried because he said his children were learning things in school that he didn’t like.…
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About Shoes and Bibles
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…
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My First House Church
Today I visited a family from the Central African Republic. The languages they speak are Songo and French. The family hosts a house church. This was the first time I ever went to a house church! A house church is when a few families meet together in a place like a house or an apartment.…
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Ready for Anything!
Usually, when I finish delivering a Bible to a family, I go to a little café with my dad so that I can write some notes for my next blog story. The best café to go to is called Halal Pizza in Clarkston. It is run by people from Somalia. I like to order chai…
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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…
Bibles For Refugees 