Stories

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,

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

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

Thank you to Slumberland for donating 75 beds to refugees served by Arrive Ministries. These beds declare ‘you are welcome here,’” said Bob Oehrig, Executive Director of Arrive Ministries. Arrive

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

“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,

“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

“I missed them, we would talk on the phone or Facetime. I always hoped they would be able to join me in MN. I am happy to have my entire

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

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