We ran out of Swahili Bibles, but we just got a full box of new ones last month.

We have some Bibles available in French, Spanish, English, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Nepali, Amharic and Swahili.

Let us know if you need one!

Today I brought another Swahili Bible to someone who never had one before. Furaha lives with her sister and the family of her sister’s husband. Furaha is 20 years old and she is finishing high school this year. She wants to go to Georgia State next year. She is living with her sister because her sister needs help taking care of the baby. So, Furaha takes care of her nephew when she is not in school.

Furaha’s name means “joy” in English and that is my middle name! She goes to my dad’s church and she plays the guitar for the choir. We gave her the Bible to read in Swahili and she was so excited to get one of her own. She never had one before in her life. We also gave the family some food and kitchen things like bowls and plates and they were so happy. The mom was actually dancing in the doorway as we were leaving!

I liked giving the Bible to Furaha because her name is like mine and also she was really happy and thankful to get a Bible of her own.

On the day after Christmas, I got to bring a Swahili Bible to someone who never had one before in her life! Here is what I wrote from that day:

I woke up this morning to a winter wonderland. It doesn’t snow that often in Georgia but it did today. Me and my dad went to Fatima’s house. Fatima is not her real name. She didn’t want anyone to know she was getting a Bible and she didn’t want us to take her picture. But she was really glad to get her own Swahili Bible!

She has eight kids and they moved a couple days ago out of their apartment and into their house, so she had suitcases and boxes everywhere. There were lights and flowers on the walls and some pictures were hung up really high near the ceiling. But there wasn’t much furniture – only a couple couches.

After we gave her the Bible, she was really happy. We prayed for her and then she asked us to eat some food but they didn’t have any chairs or tables so we sat on the floor. She gave us fufu and daga. Fufu is like soft cornmeal and daga is small, dried fish that she got from Tanzania. We only ate with our hands. I rolled the fufu in one hand until it was a ball. Then I scooped up some daga with it and I ate it!

I felt good when I saw that Fatima was so happy about the Bible and about us eating her food.

Last month I had the chance to bring a Bible to a family that didn’t have one yet. The family of Honore is from Congo but mostly they only remember Tanzania where the refugee camp was. Honore is a taxi driver and he lives with his wife and children, his mom and dad, and some of his brothers and sisters. They used to live in an apartment, but my dad helped them move into a house about one year ago. It is a nice house with a lot of flowers.

Honore’s mom is a Christian and my dad led his sister to the Lord and baptized her last year. But Honore had some bad experiences in churches before, but he was happy to get a Bible to read on his own. I gave him a Swahili Bible and an English Bible too because he knows English. Now he can read the Bible in two languages if he wants to.

We prayed for him and his family. I hope he reads the Bible a lot and learns that Jesus loves him and died for him.

Hi everyone! Yesterday I visited the family of Mr. Konki with my dad. Mr. Konki is from Congo, and he is not a Christian. He lives in an apartment complex called Clarkston Station. It is not very nice. It has a lot of boards on the windows from thieves and fires, and it has a lot of broken glass on the sidewalks.

At first, we didn’t know where Mr. Konki’s apartment was exactly so my dad and Mr. Thomas had to knock on a lot of doors to find the right one. When we went in his apartment little kids were watching TV and there were curtains on all the walls and the ceiling. Mr. Konki’s wife had to go to work so we didn’t see her very much. She said she works very hard, but Mr. Konki doesn’t work.

Mr. Konki said he has a big problem with drinking too much alcohol. He doesn’t have many teeth left because of it. He said his drinking friends have to call him “Konki Master” when they see him.

Mr. Konki’s first name is Herode. He was named after King Herod in the Bible. My dad asked him if he knew about King Herod in the Bible. He only knew a little bit so my dad talked for a long time about Jesus. Herode had a lot of questions especially about Adam and Eve and sins and sacrificing sheep.

At the end he said he understood the story of Jesus but he wasn’t ready in his heart to be a Christian. He said he would think about it some more. So we gave him a Swahili Bible and also a movie about Jesus in Swahili. He was really surprised and happy about it! My dad prayed with him and then we took some pictures together.

This morning our friend Mr. Thomas called my dad and said that Herode showed all his friends the pictures and now they want us to bring Bibles and visit them too!  

Today we visited the family of Saidi. This family used to live in a refugee camp in Tanzania for 22 years.

Then they moved to the United States and have lived in Clarkston for 2 years and they now have five kids.

Outside the apartment complex looked very dirty. There was a bed on the sidewalk, garbage on the ground, and clothes on the grass.

But the apartment the family lives in is quite clean.

They had Christmas lights on the walls and decorations on the walls and it smelled good.

We gave them a Swahili Bible and they were happy. Now they have a Bible in their own language.

The mom is sick and can’t go to work so we prayed with them. We also gave them some kitchen supplies that other people donated to us. They were so happy!

Thank you,

Eva Zagami