Welcome back to the Coffee and Bible Time podcast.

For those that may be listening for the first time, our podcast is an offshoot from our main platform YouTube.

Our channel is called Coffee and Bible Time where our goal is to help people delight in God's Word.

We also have a website and storefront with Bible studies, prayer journals, and more.

I'm Mentor Mama and today we are going to be talking about how immigrants and refugees strengthen our churches today.

You know, our country has a long history of immigrants and refugees seeking a better life and finding it in America.

And for Americans, that brings an incredible opportunity to spread the gospel, both individually

and also through our local churches. Well, God has called us all to welcome strangers, to love our

neighbors and even our enemies and make disciples of all nations.

But sometimes we fail to see the least of these as God does.

So immensely valuable.

Well, our guests today, Josh Sharif and Sarah Tierney, have teamed up to write the book, The Stranger at Our Shore,

which largely recounts Josh's journey out of Egypt and Islam to the United States and his conversion to the Christian faith.

Josh and Sarah help us understand the importance

of receiving immigrants into not only our society,

but lovingly into our churches.

But first, a word from our sponsor.

Hey, everyone.

Is your church group looking for a new turnkey program that you can quickly and easily put in place?

Well, we have just the opportunity for you. Coffee and Bible Time has created two new teaching courses on how to pray using our prayer journal and how to pray using our prayer binder. We modeled these

teaching courses after a live event that we conducted for a group of a hundred

women and girls in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately when the pandemic hit, this cut off

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