S4 E23 Good Friday with Sahar Qumsiyah, an LDS Palestinian Christian
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In this episode Kerry explores with Sahar Qumsiyah, a member of the church who grew up in Bethlehem as a Palestinian Christian, what Holy Week was like for her and what it is like now and the meaning of Good Friday for her. She shares some of herstories of coming to Christ in Bethelem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast, and this is one of our special Holy Week episodes where we're trying to make sure we focus on the savior and his atonious sacrifice and his |
| 0:21.1 | resurrection |
| 0:22.3 | and it's an effort to help members of the church of jesus christ of |
| 0:25.2 | latter-day saints |
| 0:26.4 | uh... and really anyone who is interested |
| 0:28.9 | to more fully understand and appreciate the holy week |
| 0:31.9 | and uh... and to understand different this year were looking at different |
| 0:35.2 | perspectives and different faith traditions as we focus on the Savior and the things he did for us. I am so happy to have with this |
| 0:44.9 | a guest that is, an old friend, I think we met in 2011, so that's a while ago now. We have |
| 0:52.3 | with this Sahar Kumsea. Welcome, Sahar. Yeah, thank you for |
| 0:56.5 | having me. It's my pleasure. I'll tell everyone just a little bit about you, and then you can |
| 1:01.8 | tell the more about yourself, but Sahar is from Bethlehem, and grew up as a Christian there, a Palestinian Christian, and eventually joined the church. |
| 1:14.4 | And when I first met her, she was the Relief Society president in the Jerusalem branch that I was a member of. |
| 1:22.0 | And that's how we got to know each other. |
| 1:24.2 | I believe you were working for the UN at the time. |
| 1:27.1 | Yes. And now teaches at |
| 1:29.5 | BYU, Idaho and lives in Idaho. But for many, many, many years, was a central and cohesive |
| 1:39.0 | figure in the Jerusalem branch. But what else would you like to tell us about you, Sahar? |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, that pretty much sums it. |
| 1:47.4 | I'm the only member of the church and my family. |
| 1:51.0 | I joined the church when I went to BYU to do a master's degree back in 1996. |
| 1:58.7 | It's been a while now, but I've been here in Idaho 10 years, but yeah, before that, I lived in Palestine, and I live near Bethlehem. I live in a town called Batesahor, which is the place where one of the fields is where they think the shepherds were. |
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