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Blend's Story

See how tea and cake is making Jesus known to refugees and asylum seekers in Cardiff...

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Blend's Story

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See how tea and cake is making Jesus known to refugees and asylum seekers in Cardiff...

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They've been in war, they've seen family members die -

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their resilience is amazing.

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One particular guy that struck me, he came in,

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and he just whispered, "I want to be a Christian,

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"but I don't know how."

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So I work with asylum seekers and refugees,

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and I hear a lot of stories from British people

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about what they think an asylum seeker or refugee is,

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that they're uneducated, that they're lazy.

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But that is not the case at all.

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I meet lawyers, architects, and businessmen,

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obviously sometimes been through very difficult situations.

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They've been tortured, they've been imprisoned.

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That's why they're here,

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and it's just because they want to make a life.

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It's not because they've come to steal anyone's job.

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They didn't even know that we have benefits.

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- I got involved in this project

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through Cardiff Vineyard Church.

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Cardiff's a dispersal city so we get a lot of people

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coming in and out.

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I'm also a linguist myself, so I have keen interest

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in sort of the languages side of it.

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I love playing with the kids,

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linking people up if I know people come from

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the same countries or speak the same languages

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so you can kind of create community.

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I think something that I find really hard

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is listening to people's stories sometimes,

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but it also kinda spurs you on to see

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that a very simple thing that we do, which is just

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offering people coffee and a cake and a bit of a chat

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actually means a lot to them.

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- So Blend started in January 2017,

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and we just kept meeting new people coming in

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and asking could they take a Bible,

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could they take a 'Why Jesus?',

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asking where they could go to church.

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They wanted to learn more about being Christian.

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God really spoke to us and said we needed

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to do something about it,

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and so we created a small group.

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We start with a Bible study

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and that is translated into Farsi

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because now most of the people that come are Iranian.

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And we eat together.

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Food is so important.

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And we just pray together.

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Even if all you've got is a packet of biscuits,

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it's not about that.

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It's about sharing stories,

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and that's all you need to do.

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And it doesn't matter where you do that

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or what that looks like,

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even if I can just change one person's situation

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then it's worth it.

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The best thing is just being able to help people

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and to share Jesus with them.

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It's fun.

March 2020
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