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Good evening everyone. I don't remember the last time I was standing here. I think it's 2.
The first one was, back in 2,020. I speak for a few minutes.
I don't know how long I took that day. And the second was for my Marriage, I believe those 2.
Event happening. How was standing in front of you and then it's honored to me today.
For the opportunity She stand in front of you and to share a little bit of my life story. So before I go ahead and speak to the message as I prepare for you.
For those who don't know me, myself and my family. We are refugees, so we were restored to Wisconsin back in 2,016.
So which was a huge and big step for myself and my family. And then I was so grateful to meet you guys here.
You guys are being amazed to my family and myself as well and we are continue to be grateful for that.
Without being said I would like to share little bit of where we came from. So before I go ahead, I have a video.
This is a month of June. So, and then I remember when Jeanine comes to me and asked Kellenberg, someone was assigned to create this on I mean the June, the 20 fifth.
He said he's not gonna be available. So could you do? I say yes. And then I've been putting a lot of thought on that.
And, I didn't realize that this month of June. It's a world refugee day.
So all the refugees around the world are gathered together to celebrate. And it's not just celebration, we also receive a wellness from that for there's a we've been in a lot of struggle if I share a little bit.
Of where we've been through, I think everybody will be in emotion. So I don't wanna go there.
But I have a video about 1 min and 30. Second, so it's not gonna take long.
So. I will like you to watch and I think it will give you a an idea about refugee.
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And I came through the camp called Niagara Goose Camp, which is located in. Tanzania Kigoma.
So the camp was open in 1996. The slide is not there.
Sure. So the camp was open 1996 and was back was in November. And I was planning to host those Congolese.
Who fled from the home country. To fund saved. So my family was part of that. Back then I wasn't born.
So I was born in in a refugee camp. So at the 2,015, prior, to April, 2,015, the camp hosted 65,000 Congolese and 2 2,400 per engine.
And 2,015 there was election going on in Burundi so They can't receive another 84,000.
961, who arrive between April in October. That here.
So the United Nations of Refugee Agency called UNHCR. Set down and find out that.
It's too crowded. There's a lot of people already in one camp. So they come with a solution to open another 2 camps.
Which is in Duta and in, So they did all the best they could do. The relocation 40,000 Burundi and refugee to those 2 kings.
The population haven't stopped is continued to grow. If I go here by here, you will see how the population is added in the camp.
But at the 2,022, January first. So the country of Tanzania.
So that will be Naragoskimp and And then Duta was over 246,780 refugee.
In those 3 camps.
So. But I'm so lucky. You might ask yourself why I'm here.
I know there's a lot of people back there. They want to be here.
There's a program called resettlement program that's as provided by United United Nation.
Of Refugee Agency. Which help those. Quarity been in the camp for over 10 or 6, 10 or 26 years.
So I come through that program. And then it's not by choice. You get picked randomly.
You know, gonna choose, I wanna go to America. You have that you have no power to say that.
I wanna go to Canada. Some people wish to go to Canada, but they ended up in the US.
Some people wish to go to, US by the end of in Canada.
And that program is to empower and to help those refugee who lost hope.
The government.
Given up on them the country giving up on them Then I have a risks. If they go back there, they don't know where to start.
So myself and my family. We are lucky.
We are here.
So a little bit background. If you want to find it on a map. It's located about 150 kilometer east of Lake Tanganyika.
So. This is on a record for 20 first century Yeah, a goose camp is known as the best and the largest refugee camp.
Which is I'm so happy for that.
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As a refugee. You have no one? What do you do?
When you come from, and you reach in a country where there is no bullet, of course you feel that you are in heaven.
I think that I'm the only person in the world. Then I have found Miucci, who have the same passion as mine.
Great art comes from the limitations of things. It's infectious to spread low. Yeah.
I have never given up. I also try and get other people to not give up.
But we lost our home. Music was our therapy.
We are all struggling to meet the Before you think of going far start from where you are. Whoever.
Despite being
We have something in home.
We are our company.
That's my message.
That's quite better but
Background couple things I will mention about the video is In a refugee camp, there is a lot of dreamer.
But they have a lack of resources.
Lots of people are dreaming. I remember myself Myself and my brother. We were running small business to exchange money.
But we didn't have support. Because if you are a refugee think about this you are a refugee You have no leg, you have no arm.
Every one thing is in your mind is Oh, someone will help me. You are depending on someone. Food, education.
All the research financial support, you are depending on someone.
Some time you will get to, you will get to, a budget of meal that, okay, they told you this is 2 weeks and then.
Do the best you can to eat that for one month. Can you imagine?
For one month you have budgets of 2 weeks. You know that this food I get is only for 2 weeks.
But they are telling you to eat that for one month. That was back then. I don't know if they change it, but I've been through that.
I mean, I used to this.
So my life as a refugee.
As I said, I was leaving as a prisoner and it was a miserable.
Was miserable. I have a passion to do something but I have no hope that will come true.
Every time I go to bed I will dream. I wanna help with people, but how?
I don't have the resource that will have my dream to come true.
We only go to school and then you finish our school and that's it. I don't have financial support to continue my education to the university, to college.
Even you might go to school, you learn about taking care of the animal but you will end up teaching.
Hi, the student. So there was a lot of people who finish our school. And ended up to do.
Different things that they learn from school.
You are living as a refugee. You will live in area that is overcrowded. A lot of people are in there.
According to doctor without border There's a one out of 3 refugees suffer for mentor. Host challenge such as push drummer.
Oh, stress disorder, depression and anxiety.
Due to What they experience in life. What's up? What's happening during the war? This suffering.
A lot. This is a one, even myself.
Every time my mom and my dad share their story, what they've been through during war. I cry.
It was a civil war.
I cry.
My mom and my dad shared to me that The witness, the siblings. Die during war.
So I am so thanks for for this 3 organization. One of them is UNHCR is the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Which is the.
The main nation is to help refugee to have a better life to, lift themselves. Bye.
Sign a lot of agreement with. All of these government around the world. So it's not just only United States.
So the UN, the UNHCR is on the. I agreement with the Tanzania government so that way we can stay there away from the war zone.
After staying in a camp. For over 20 years.
We were randomly selected by The United States of America.
To come here and to start a new life. After losing hope.
That's why we are here.
Like I said, I am so grateful. To be here. Not only me, even my family. And other refugee.
And that's. Bring me to my paste that I prepare to you today. Is living in hope.
For 20 years. We were living in hope.
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So this is my by stage for today is living in hope. I know We, there's a some definition about hope.
So one of them is a filling of expectation and desire for certain things to happen. And the second one is filling of trust.
And the third one is something to happen or be the case.
So. Let's see spiritually. There's some definition about hope.
In a Bible. But Let's see what does a Jesus says about hope.
So now I know the plan I have for you.
Declare the load. Planned to prosper but not to harm you.
What wonderful promises. Of chases telling they disobey telling us It's a plan to prosper, but not to harm us.
An Avenue. Where my life was for 20 years.
I never knew what my life would be look like. I have a passion to help for people but
I didn't have a hope that will happen.
He also said plan to give you hope. And a future.
He has a plan. To give me hope. In the future. Now I'm here.
I'm able to see my future.
Because I have a hope from home, away from her.
If I was in Congo.
I shouldn't be here, right? I should be in. If I was in Tanzania, I shouldn't be here.
So if I don't mistake it, was, June 20 first.
Cause right now I'm working with a resale woman agency to help as a refugee who came from around the world.
And one thing that makes me to get higher is because I say, well, you know what? I was helpful.
I someone helped me before I need to pay back.
So,
Like I said, June 20 first. I find myself a medicine. At the government nation.
Did I have a hope that I will be there one day? No.
But because there is a plan already.
I have to follow but I can see it.
There's a future about me. God will not tell me what my future will look like, but I have to follow the process of to get there.
We all believe that when we die, we'll be with God. Why? Because we believe in.
We believe in that. Because he has already plan our future.
He promised us he's not gonna, there's a plan to prosper. Not too harm us.
If I compare my life
Back then and here is totally different.
Let's continue in first feature, chapter 5 and verse 10 and say Got to say. And they got of all grace.
Who called you to his internal glory in Christ after you have in soft ring for a little while.
After you have been suffering for a little while, we will suffer.
It's not only me.
Everyone suffering. But in different circumstance. My life's a story. That I've been refugee.
If someone come here and share their life story. There is suffering in it.
You know, gonna just, oh, I was born and then I will have a good life. No.
You will suffer.
And that is the test. The Lord is giving us. Not to giving up on
Continue to sell, will himself restore? And to make you strong. Fern and is steady first.
Who will be restored.
Who will become strong. Some time our suffering might make us weak.
But after God Restore us, we will become strong. Firm and is steady fast.
This is the promise. This is how Jesus said. About hope.
And we should continue remembering that every single day. In our lives.
I have a thing that I will share with you, also It's according to Bible. How they define hope.
So first one is, hope is never lost. We will find that in Roman chapter 8. Verse 24.
Second one is We can be confidence in hope. Pat in Hebrew. Chop to 11.
Verse one.
And third one will be trash, true hope, come from God. I love this one. True hope come from God.
And we'll find that in Roman chapter 15, verse 13. Also hope. Is a gift.
And lastly, hope and do in Proverb chapter 24 and verse 18.
Those are the 5 things I will spend. little bit time on it.
During, hope is never lost. According to Bible in Roman chapter 8 verse 24 they say or in this hope we were saved.
So in this hope We were saved. Hey, if I put singular there, I would say I was saved.
Pur, we were saved because we Have hope. From that hope I had for 20 years that I will be somewhere.
Not in that place. But I will be somewhere. I was saved.
But I hope that is seen. Is not hope at all.
If you already see hope, don't call that is hope.
It's not
Can you call that is hope? No.
Because it's already been seen.
If I was here already and go back to Africa. And say I hope to go to America. Have you been there?
Yes. What you call that is whole. You wanna go back there, but you don't hope to go back there.
Yeah.
And sometimes it's difficult to see hope in a situation.
It's difficult to see hope in a different situation. You might be in a situation, but you won't see hope.
But the Bible say that True hope is unseen.
If there is a true hope, is unseen, you can see it.
Like I said, if you already see it, it's not hope at all. They Bible said, true hope is unseen.
And then if we can hope Hopefully for one thing such as salvation.
Which is also kennichi salvation? No, it's unseen.
And we can be hopeful for the other thing.
Because we are hopefully for our salvation. We believe that one day We'll be saved. One day we'll be with God.
One day we'll be in a place that We wanted to be.
And then which everyone know. Where it's in heaven. We hope one day we will be there.
We are just renting in this. World. This is not where we'll be forever.
If we continue to have that hope. Will be with God. One day.
That is one a definition in the Roman chapter 8 verse 24. Hope he's unseen.
Our salvation is unseen. But do we hope?
Continent to Hebrew chapter 11 verse one. He says, now faith is confidence in what we hope.
Whole and I sure assurance about it. We do not see.
Naroman chapter 8 verse 24. Explain us that hope is unseen.
And but if it's unseen Can we trust it? If you don't see hope, can we trust it?
This make me believe.
I will give it to example. One of them is I can order Uber right here or I can.
Got a ticket to get a, a, I mean. To fly from Chicago to San Diego or Chicago to Phoenix.
How will trust the pilot? Because I'm seeing it and I believe in it. Okay, well you will take me from plan point A to point B because I see the pilot.
The Uber driver, I will trust him. Are we or how we trust her because I see He's right there in front of me.
I will give him my address. Okay, take me home and it will take me home.
Our insurance company. We don't see that. You might be in Wisconsin. But your insurance company is in in New York.
But you have hope that if you have a damage, if something happened to your car or to your house, You know that they will fix it.
Because there is a law. Protected that. There is a law protected.
You'll be like, okay, I'm in Wisconsin. I got a car accident. I will call my insurance company where they best.
They're in California. They are in New York.
2 weeks after, I have to submit your claim. You receive a check. Okay, use a check.
Fix your call.
Because there is a law. Protect that. Uber driver, there's a rule.
And Neil, can you, if you order Uber driver and the, or the driver is is too drunk.
Can you ride with that guy?
What if the power told you that okay I'm too drunk right now, but I will take you to Chicago from Phoenix.
It would say no. I'm not gonna write our plan. Please give me another plan.
But if the policy, okay. Welcome on board. This is your pilot Lambert. I'll be taking him from Phoenix to Chicago.
And our cruise attitude will be 36,000 attitude fit 30,000 feet and our temperature then she is a little bit cooler warm.
We have a 70 degree. You already have that hope. Okay, well I'm going to Chicago.
From Phoenix. Because you see the pilot, you see the Uber driver.
And second example is You insurance, insurance company. You don't see them.
Because they follow the rule and there is a law.
There is a law.
So.
So hope I assure us, that we can be confidence in it. Because it's a law of God.
It is a law of God. To have hope.
Because there's insurance about it.
And then it it is one of the law of God.
Have hope in me, believe in me and you will see and you shall see me one day.
I will like to read Roman chapter 1513.
And then it's going to split through hope. Come from God. In verse 13 say Now.
May the God of hope fool you with all a joy. Peace and believe. That you may abound.
In a hope by the power of Holy Spirit.
There's some hope that we hope.
In which
In it, there is no hope.
We might have a hope, but in if you look deep inside, there's no hope.
For instance of financial stability.
It can bring true hope.
But it can bring security and a level easy. So you will have no fear. You pay all your bill.
But can you buy happiness with the money?
No, where we get the happiness. From God. You can buy happiness. You might have millions of dollars, billions of billions.
But if you have a lack of happiness.
You have a lack of joy. You have a lack of peace. You have a lack of holy spirit.
You can't go in market and buy Holy Spirit. No.
You have to believe in God.
And you shall receive the whole Spirit.
True hopes come from God and he's the one who created. As I mentioned, is one of the law.
That is the one who created hope.
And true hope come by trousing. God. In any circumstance.
You might be. Having some challenge in your life right now. Oh, you haven't passed. But never lose never stop trusting in load Never start trusting in Jesus.
How you should know that I do trust in God.
One is obey his word.
Obey Eastward.
Because it's true. Reducing obedience. Which will produce hope. And then it will result as joy and peace.
And that is the power of the Holy Spirit.
As we obey God.
We produce obedience. And we produce hope.
Continue with
Hope is a and then we will find that in Roman chapter 5 Verse 5. It said and hope does not put us to a shame.
Because God loves has been pure. Out into our heart. Through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
There's a cards law. Our heart and Holy Spirit.
Dutch lobsters. And pure love in into our heart. Through the Holy Spirit.
It's it's a wonderful result of hope.
Is it delivery by the Holy Spirit of God? He gives us the power. To power to hope and that Hey, just to show the demonstration.
How much he loved us.
2 hope. To show a demonstration how much he loved us.
Lastly, I wanna talk about, hope and do. Okay.
You my hope is for something and then you need that thing to hop in and certain period of time.
But we need to be patient with God.
You will be praying okay. I wanted this hop into me. Maybe this year I wanna finish college.
I haven't done yet. Where's God? Maybe this year wanna be somewhere, but you haven't been there.
In you start blaming God.
But you need we need to be patient.
We need to be patient with card.
In proverb chapter 23 verse 18 they say There is a surely a future hope for you.
And you hope will not cut off.
If you hope to finish school, if you hope to do something, if you hope to get another job that pays well, if you hope to be someone.
Do not lose that hope. Continuing hoping that. Because one day will happen.
One day will help them. As we believe one day we'll be in with God because we continue believing in Him.
We continue obey his word.
And that will make us one day to be with him.
And God will bless his word. Thanks.
Yeah, I would like to close in prayer.
I've been talking Swahili I mean in English for quite a while but I will pray in Swahili.
So as you can see my family. My wife aren't there. I chat to one man.
Let's pray.
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