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June 3, 2025

Growing Together Podcast: Welcoming the Stranger

While immigration is a hot topic in today’s news, God’s Word, in Deuteronomy 10:19 instructs us to love the stranger, for we were strangers in the land of Egypt. Today, more people than ever live in a country other than where they were born. MNA’s Refugee and Immigrant Ministry assists our churches in welcoming the […]

Growing Together Podcast: Refugee and Immigrant Ministries

One out of seven persons in the US was born in another country – refugees, immigrants, international students and businesspersons. The Lord has brought people from every nation to our local communities – some already brothers and sisters in Christ, others who have never had a chance to know Him. Join in on our conversation […]

Osman J

Osman is a former Muslim born in Somalia.   Due to a friendship with a young Christian friend, Osman met Jesus and came to know the Lord in August 2007.   This event marked a change in Osman so noticeable that his family disowned him for his newfound love for Jesus. During Osman’s time in college, he felt the calling to […]

Leslie P Johnson

Leslie previously served as the Cross-cultural Training Specialist for PCA Mission to North America’s Refugee and Immigration Ministry, and has led the ministry’s physical presence at General Assembly for several years.   She developed a deep understanding of cross-cultural issues from her own experience living overseas for more than 26 years, raising 3 children in […]

Angela Pacey

For the last three years, Angela Pacey has had the awesome privilege of leading a team from Christ Covenant Church (CCC) in Matthews, NC, as they stepped out in faith and obedience to serve the Afghan refugee community that has settled in their area. At first, they thought that would simply involve delivering food to […]

Sarah

During a local, summer mission trip with her church in 2009, Sarah worked with many refugee children.  A few years later she moved across town to continue this work by living on the edge of a low-income neighborhood, a neighborhood less than a mile from her church.   Since then, she has run a Bible […]