Stories of Hope

Thank you to Slumberland for donating 75 beds to refugees served by Arrive Ministries. Arrive Ministries is honored to be one of 6 worthy recipients of this Home for the Holidays initiative. “We wanted to give our mattresses to people who are sleeping on the floor. Most

I would embark on one of the richest, most beautiful, stretching and humbling journeys of my life. I was driving in an RV with my family in South Dakota when Rob Scott called me on the phone and asked if I wanted to help lead a group

“Are you a teacher? Can you teach me English?” Susan had recently finished tutoring one of her regular SALT (Somali Adult Literacy Training) students. When waking through the parking lot, a car pulled up beside her and a Somali woman lowered the window. “Are you a teacher?”

“I have always wanted to serve the Lord overseas, but every time I got ready to go I would get deathly ill. Time after time the door was not only closed, it was triple locked. But God kept telling me to trust him, and I prayed that

Aye and her brother and sister had been separated from their father, mother, and brother for over 3 years. The family of 6 was last together in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand, but on Thursday they were finally reunified at the MSP airport, during one

Andrei was a youth pastor and contractor in Russia. An oppressive law that 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 Russia

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