Her Name is Compassion | Alli Blair

Inspired... with Simon Guillebaud

Great Lakes Outreach

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Laughter and tears come in equal measure this week as this eccentric and unique lady shares stories of naked Mai Mai militia, her 12-ft pet python, and helping ladies out of prostitution. If you want to be put in touch with Alli, it’ll be my pleasure to connect you - just write to me. Watch Freddy tell his inspirational story: https://youtu.be/X4v-81lPHiQ (https://youtu.be/X4v-81lPHiQ) --- For more from Simon go to: https://linktr.ee/simonguillebaud (linktr.ee/simonguillebaud) --- Produced by Great Lakes Outreach - Transforming Burundi and Beyond: https://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/ (greatlakesoutreach.org)

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0:00.0	I mean, she hadn't seen her family for years and years.
0:04.0	And God told her, yeah, go find your family.
0:07.0	So she started the hike.
0:08.0	And as she's approaching the village,
0:10.0	she hears sounds of a party.
0:13.0	She arrives.
0:14.0	And what had happened?
0:15.0	Her brother had been told by the Holy Spirit,
0:19.0	prepare a party.
0:20.0	There's going to be an unexpected visitor.
0:22.8	Well, hello everybody. Welcome to Inspired with Simon Gilbo. I'm very excited this week because
0:28.5	we've got a real character. Some would call her a nutter. She's eccentric. She's fun. She's got
0:35.5	an extraordinary story across many different nations.
0:39.3	Her name is Ali Mbabazi Blair. Welcome, Ali.
0:43.9	Thank you, sir.
0:45.0	It's so good to have you. It really is.
0:47.9	So why did I say Mbazzi? For those of you, which is just about all of you that don't speak Kirundi,
0:53.7	Ali was given the name Mbabezi.
0:55.0	Very few white people from the outside are given local names, but she was given the name
0:59.0	Mbabezi, which means compassion. And that is absolutely who she is. So I don't know
1:05.0	whether we'll experience it live on air today, but often as she's talking, she's telling
1:10.0	stories, she'll just start crying
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