Stories of Hope

Andrei was a youth pastor and contractor in Russia. An oppressive law passed in 2016 banned the public sharing of one’s Christian faith. After receiving threats from Russian officials on the lives of his two children, Andrei, his wife Galina and their children fled from Russian as

From the very beginning Carol Entwistle knew she would become fast friends with Shema, who arrived from Rwanda at the Minneapolis airport on a frigid November day, wearing flannel pants and flip flops under her African dress. “We share the same birthday, we are about the same

The Martinez family came to Minnesota in July of 2014 as persecuted religious refugees from Cuba.  They had been praying for the opportunity to come to America for many years, and believed that God had a plan for them. Their strong faith in The Lord has been

Christelle and her parents were resettled through Arrive Ministries in November of 2018. They were matched with an RLM team from Shepherd of the Valley Church in Afton, MN. Christelle is 19-years-old and lives in St. Paul. She is studying to be a nurse. Christelle was born

At 10-years-old, Nadia embarked on the most dangerous journey of her life, through the mountainous jungles of Burma, attempting to cross the border to safety in Thailand with her mother. “I got sick at one point up in the mountains, I was afraid the group of strangers

To fully understand the story of Jamila’s housing crisis and the way one church stepped in to make all the difference, you must understand God’s incredible timing using circumstances. Jamila is a single mother of 3 young boys who fled Mozambique due to an unsafe situation. After

An organization generously donated thousands of vegetable and flower seed packets to the Church Refugee Garden Program for use by the gardeners next spring to jump-start their growing season. There was one catch: the seeds were unsorted. We had dozens of boxes of mixed-up seed packets waiting

How Can I Help You? Like so many of our clients, she sat holding a packet stuffed with documents, the paper key to unlock the door of reunification with her overseas family. She patiently answered my questions. We chatted about raising kids as I helped her sort

It was a day set aside for ministering to a Muslim woman but I didn’t know to whom specifically. As I was praying, God kept placing on my heart the name of a woman I had not visited with in over a year, and her daughter. She