Today I delivered more stock pots to refugee families in need. It was exciting to get to revisit some of the Bhutanese/Napalise families I use to get to work more with when I volunteered at the resettlement agency. Unfortunately, many of the Asian families I served by tutoring English are not able to participate in the Asha’s Refuge ALL classes (American Life and Language) or work with us too much. It’s not really that they are not able to it is that our buses fill up with African Refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Burundi, Zimbabwe, and Cameroon and the Asian refugees just seem to think our program is not something offered to them. Another words, they think we serve the African refugees and are not designed to help them. That makes me sad. Because we don’t have a great system to pick up the Asian refugee families for classes nor enough time in our days to volunteer hours to go to additional doctor appointments, grocery stores, offer job skills and American life understanding…this group feels left out.

I know there are a few churches in the area of Memphis where the Bhutanese families are getting some assistance but I am curious how many are feeling afraid and unsure. I’ve met more and more Iraqi refugees who need assistance as well. I pray that the future of Asha’s Refuge is so great that God willing it will be able to impact so many with a hopeful knowledge of Jesus. This requires continued funding, land, a building, partnerships with those organizations who are like minded, cooperation with the resettlement agencies, collaboration and prayer from churches willing to come together, training, volunteers and so much more. I am biting off way more than I can chew! If I look at the task before me I can easily want to give up, but because I pray to be moved out of the way I can trust that God will make a way. He’s a big God and does big things! I am certain He has a plan I couldn’t even begin to imagine. Please pray with me for the future of the Nations and how Asha’s Refuge may be just a little part in Gods big plan.