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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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Bibles and Vanilla Crème
Today I visited Mrs. Selam. She and her husband own a coffee shop. They are really nice and my dad likes to go there for espresso and I always get vanilla crème. They have a lot of books there and people come and drink coffee or work or they just sit and talk together. It’s…
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The Bible Says: “Do Not Be Afraid”
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27 Josefina is a single mom from Tanzania. Even though she is from Tanzania, she is Congolese because she had to move to Tanzania…
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The Special Prize
Kuendelea is from Congo but she was living in Tanzania for a long time before she moved to America as a refugee. She wanted to live in Clarkston but she had to live in Jonesboro because it’s close to the airport. The people who resettled her family got her a job at the airport and…
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An Old Friend Gets a New Bible
Some of you might know that I broke my leg playing basketball. I had to wear a walking boot for four weeks so I wasn’t able to deliver any Bibles this month. But my brother volunteered to deliver a bible for me, so this is going to be a blog from my brother Orion: When…
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No Place is Too Far for a Bible
Today I visited a family in Jonesboro which is about one hour from Clarkston because of all the traffic. Now a lot of refugee families are getting resettled to Jonesboro because Clarkston is filling up fast. Jonesboro has cheap apartments and there are jobs at the airport which is right nearby. So now a lot…
