My Peace I Give You

My Peace I Give You - Part 2

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January 21, 2021

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This photo is representative of what Iraqi refugees found when they returned to their villages.
Photo by NPR.

My Peace I Give You
a three-part story told by Iraqi refugee in Jordan

Part 2
Ruaa Nofal, a twenty-year-old woman, and her family fled to Erbil, Iraq, after Da'ash terrorists attacked their home village. Her story continues below.

The people of Erbil did not receive us well because we were Christians. We were harassed and had to pay twice the price for groceries. Rent for our apartment was also very expensive.

While living in Erbil, we heard the situation had calmed down in our village. My father went back to recover some of our clothing and photo albums. When my father got to our village, he found our house had been burned from the inside and bombed on the outside. Everything in it was destroyed.

My father was crushed. He felt hopeless because we had lost everything. When my father returned to Erbil, he looked like a corpse. He was very sad, and his heart was broken. In a low voice, he told us that nothing remains for us in this life. We held each other’s hands and prayed God would help us get through this tragedy.

God helped me to see a blessing in our suffering: we had drawn closer as a family. Before this tragedy, we were each busy in our own lives and work, but now we stood next to each other. I felt like God was sending us a message, telling us we had lost all our possessions, but we did not lose each other.

We stayed in Erbil for four months until my father could get us a visa to travel to Jordan.

Part 3 - next week - Ruaa finds peace.

Video Resources

Due to security reasons, these pages are password protected. Email contact@impactmiddleeast.org for password.

To view videos of Impact Middle East Ministry in EGYPT, click here.

To view videos of Impact Middle East Ministry in IRAQ, click here.

To view videos of Impact Middle East Ministry in ISRAEL, click here.

To view videos of Impact Middle East Ministry in JORDAN, click here.

Opportunities

Heavenly Treasures - an Impact Middle East partner organization - offers online access to hand-crafted products made by Iraqi refugee artisans. Heavenly Treasures can also provide a “pop-up” store for your church or organization.
Shop: shopwithamission.com
Pop-up Store: christina@heavenlytreasures.org

Connected Communities, through International Child Care Ministries (ICCM), allows a U.S. church to come alongside a particular school, hostel, child development center, or other ministry in the Middle East.
Connected Community: dale@impactmiddleeast.org

SEED helps design innovative and high quality products for refugees from across the Middle East to make together, building inter-cultural relationships and sharing God’s love. Buy these designs - and purchase tote bags in bulk - at shopSEEDmarket.org

Special Opportunity

Impact Middle East is looking for local churches interested in helping refugee children in Jordan and Iraq attend school where they will receive biblical and academic instruction. Connected Communities, through International Child Care Ministries (ICCM), makes a way for churches to come alongside specific schools in the Middle East.
Connected Community: dale@impactmiddleeast.org

Children's Resources

Great for VBS or other children's missions studies

Click here for Missions Alive! Middle East and other downloads (missions curriculum for grades 1-6)
Password: 20MEeJiI20

Click here for Missions Project handout - project information, stories, activities (Offerings will enable the Noor Center in Northern Iraq help refugee children and their families)

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