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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Bringing a culture of celebration to refugee camps
Description: Lebanon (MNN) — Imagine explaining the gift of salvation to people who have never given or received gifts. That’s the situation Triumphant Mercy Lebanon faced recently.
Celebrations and Gifts
Nuna with Triumphant Mercy was teaching about celebrations and Christ’s birth at a school for Syrian refugee children. She opened the lesson by asking the students to talk about different gifts that they have received. No one had an example!
Quickly Nuna discovered that these kids never celebrated birthdays and rarely had big celebrations. The closest they came would be feasts for holy days.<...