I sat in a tea shop in a buzzing part of the city. I watched as many Rohingya men returned from their morning shift, unloading, unwrapping, and carrying goods around the many wholesale stores in this area. The small teashop sat under a makeshift roof of corrugated metal held together by a …
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Lamentations
Rohingya people live as refugees in this country. As such, they have minimal access to employment, education, and healthcare. The words I most often hear when I visit them are "pain" and "difficulty" as they describe to us the situation of their family and their people.Despite their lack, our …
Pride and Humility
"For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted..." Luke 18:14Recently, I felt compelled to learn how to tell the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Rohingya. Around the same time, in a lesson with my language helper, she told a …