Retired at 55; now helping refugee families through his church

Miles Fagerlie talks about how he and his wife helped Gilbert, a father of 2 teenage boys and a young daughter who were originally from Congo, who came to America as refugees from Rwanda. Miles says, “It started when a Pastor of an African refugee church came to our church and asked if we could help with a utility bill.” Miles got involved and started meeting some of the people, “to help them try to get around in this new world.” Miles says, “So we helped get furniture, spare couches, beds, mattresses, chairs, and tables situated in an apartment, and to learn how to use American currency, go to a grocery store and buy food, an experience they never had.” Miles says that over 1,200 Afghan refugees have recently come to Phoenix. Miles concludes, “Look for people in your neighborhood; maybe there’s a person with an accent. Encourage them; say, ‘Welcome to America’, and find out how you can help them, and share the gospel with them.”

Recent Episodes

Podcast

Federal Prison is safer to me than the streets of Tucson at night

Bob Moffitt speaks with Charlene Leach who started visiting her grandson in prison to encourage and build him up in the Lord, and now works with Prison Fellowship as a ‘grandmother’ of sorts with inmates; one inmate asked, “Excuse me, could I call you Mamaw?”  She tells several stories of God working through her among incarcerated people. Prison Fellowship

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God gave him the vision when he was 5 years old

Bob Moffitt speaks with a dad and his son who at the age of 5 wanted to be a missionary, and had a vision to feed kids at an apartment complex, give them a free set of Lego’s, and as Little Dennis says, “get together with some ministry and go minister to kids and love on them” and introduce them to Jesus. His Dad Dennis says, “We relate how when you follow the Lego instructions, your Lego’s turn out the

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Having a big brother love them in the midst of war

Bob Moffitt interviews Logan Edgell, 19, tells his experience of a stint in the Ukraine with young people in the midst of conflict, to provide relief, joy, and Bible teaching. For these kids, Logan says it was like, “having a big brother and sister loving them in the midst of war.” Logan shares the lasting impact that God made on him as he was shepherding young people, despite speaking a different language, while providing prayer, a smile and forging deep