--- title: "Blend's Story" date: 2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 author: Tim Coysh canonical_url: "https://www.eauk.org/great-commission/stories/blends-story" section: Stories --- Great Commission is the Evangelical Alliance's evangelism and mission hub for stories that inspire and resources that equip us all to share Jesus. - [Great Commission](/great-commission) - [Stories](/great-commission/stories/all) - Blend's Story # Blend's Story #### See how tea and cake is making Jesus known to refugees and asylum seekers in Cardiff... 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and it's just because they want to make a life It's not because they've come to steal anyone's job They didn't even know that we have benefits I got involved in this project through Cardiff Vineyard Church Cardiff's a dispersal city so we get a lot of people coming in and out I'm also a linguist myself, so I have keen interest in sort of the languages side of it I love playing with the kids, linking people up if I know people come from the same countries or speak the same languages so you can kind of create community I think something that I find really hard is listening to people's stories sometimes, but it also kinda spurs you on to see that a very simple thing that we do, which is just offering people coffee and a cake and a bit of a chat actually means a lot to them So Blend started in January 2017, and we just kept meeting new people coming in and asking could they take a Bible, could they take a 'Why Jesus ', asking where they could go to church They wanted to learn more about being Christian God really spoke to us and said we needed to do something about it, and so we created a small group We start with a Bible study and that is translated into Farsi because now most of the people that come are Iranian And we eat together Food is so important And we just pray together Even if all you've got is a packet of biscuits, it's not about that It's about sharing stories, and that's all you need to do And it doesn't matter where you do that or what that looks like, even if I can just change one person's situation then it's worth it The best thing is just being able to help people and to share Jesus with them It's fun Download video [ ##### Blend's Story (HD) ###### 1920 x 1080 - 85.2 MB 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