Stories of Hope

In big and small ways, Tracy works to open her doors at our Immigration Legal Services department in warm and welcoming ways. She offers tea or water to her clients, and toys to their kids. Tracy also regularly offers to pray for her clients. “The sweetest parts

Airport Jitters It was last fall, and my first time welcoming a new refugee as a Resettlement Case Manager.  I was nervously waiting at the airport for a 24-year old Karen* woman arriving from Thailand. Questions raced through my brain: ⦁ How long has she been apart

Volunteer Profile on Bill Cameron, SALT Site Director in East St. Paul Courteous, hospitable, and respectful are the three attributes Bill Cameron used to describe a group of community members who moved into the apartment complexes in his East St. Paul neighborhood 13 years ago. These attributes

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