The stories of Minnesota's newest refugees will be remembered for generations to come, thanks to a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society.
The grant award supports editing and publication of the book "This Much I Can Tell You: Stories of Courage and Hope from Refugees in Minnesota" to be released June 1.
The book gives a glimpse into the lives of some of Minnesota's newest refugees. Women and men from Somalia, Bhutan, Iraq, Cameroon, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma share their individual refugee stories.
Besides being refugees, each person represented in the book shares another thing in common—they used services at Minnesota Council of Churches Refugee Services.
MCC Refugee Services is a local affiliate of Church World Service and Episcopal Migration Ministries, two agencies contracted by the U.S. Department of State to resettle refugees.
MCC Refugee Services welcomes persecuted people from around the world to Minnesota and offers four types of service: Case Management, Employment Services, Immigration Services, and Education.
The book will be available through Beaver's Pond Books. To find out more about "This Much I Can Tell You" visit: www.mnchurches.org/refugeestories.
