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North American Division

Kuata Thumna, 2021

July, August, September

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1. Ciahkik Nuam…………………………...….. 1

2. Khualzinna ah Hong Cingden………………. 2

3. Nangkia Hikeiteh…….……………………… 4

4. Itna tawh Tuam’…….………………………. 6

5. Damsakpa’ Damsak Dingin A Kemnu…..…. 7

6. Tuipigei Aihkeh Sehnelgam..……………….. 9

7. A Lamdang Kilawmtatna………………..….. 11

8. Bawlung, Mehtui leh Pasian ……………….. 13

9. Gas Zuakna ah Vantungmi …………….. 15

10. Buaina sungah Pasian ……………………. 17

11. Thangpaihnate Beisak ……………………. 19

12. Mi Nih Leh Pasian Khat …………..….. 21

13. Thumaan Tawmcik ……………………. 23

nawnkei leh kilawm hi. Niang in Ellen White’ gelh “Khangcin Lungdeih bu” le “Kidona Lianpi bu” a kipan adang laibu tampitak dok khia in lak lai hi.

Tua nupinu’n naupang nei, cih a theih ciangin, Naupang Laibu honkhat zong lak lai hi. “Na laibu khempeuh a vekin hoih khin ee” ci hi. A lak khiat ding khat zong theikei leh kilawm hi. A tawpna ah, “Hih laibu khempeuh a vekin la ning” ci hi. Cindy ahih lam a kigen kawmin a debit card pen laibu tawh kisai-a piakkhiatna in a zat ahihlam a gen hi.

Sum a ki luai khit uh ciangin, Niang in thunget khop ding na ut hiam, ci’n dongh hi. “Thunget pen ka deih penpen hi” Cindy in ci hi. “Topa Pasian aw, ni thak khat ah nuntakna nong piak man le Cindy tawh hun nuam nong ngahsak manin lungdam ing. Na hun geelzia kicing mahmah hi. Ka mawhnate uh le ka cinlohnate uh hong maisak in. Cindy le a innkuanpihte zong tu hunsia sung panin na kepna hangin lungdam ungh. A nuntak sungun lungnopna le kha-muanna a ngah nadingun kong ngen hi. Na itna tawh amaute na angvan tawntung in. Cindy in genkhiat loh lunggulhna a neih khak zenzen leh na lawhcing sak ta in. Nangma’ sungah lametna le kha-muanna a muh theih nadingin Jesu Khris min tawh kong ngen hi. Amen.” Ci-in thu a ngen hi.

Thunget khit ciangin Cindy’ maitang lungnopna tawh hong taang hi. A kam panin thu hong phul khia ziahziah hi. Natna le sihna nung ah a inn-kuan un haksatna tampi a phutkhaknate uh hong pulak khia hi. Khiatna nei nuntakna le a thukzaw nunzia a zonna thu le Pasian’ thu a theihbeh nopnate gen khia hi.

Tuazawh a sawt loin, Niang in taksa gilkialna dam nadingin a laibu zuakpih a lawmte tawh sun-an ne uh hi. Tua kawm kawmin, Cindy in zong a khalam gilkialnate a laibu leite tung tawnin gilvahna a ngah nadingin thu a nget saksak lai hi.

Tu kuata i sumpi khenkhat tawh refugee sangnaupang pawlkhat Ad-ventist pilna sin dingin i huh leuleu ding hi. Tua banah North American Divi-sion sunga om, Palau Adventist sanga sem, missionary inn ding ahi a, Arizo-na state sunga Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah a kilam gym a kizawh siang nading ahi zongin, Canada gam, Igloolik khuapi a, Ad-ventist pawlpi le Community Center a kihon zawh nadingin i huh lai ding hi. North American Division sungah lungdamna thu a kizelh nadingin phal tak-a sumpi nong piak manun lungdam mahmah hi.

By Andrew McChesney

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1. Ciahkik Nuam ARIZONA, U.S.A. | July 3

Adrain Wiles, 20

Adrain’ thu pen naupangte’ mis-sion tangthu sungah 2018, Kuata nihna sungin kihel hi. Amah pen US gam, Arizona state sung-a, Holbrook Seventh-day Ad-ventist Indian School ah plus II a mankhin phet ahi hi. A nulepate in a dawntheih kiaukiau lam Adrain in theilo hi. Kum 7 a phak lai-in a u pasal khatin zu dawnding le khamtheih zaa zatding a pantah hi. Tua khit a kipanin awlmawh nei nawn seloin tan 3 a kah ding kumin Holbrook ah omnuam nawnlo hi. Himah taleh sang panin thuthak tampitak sinkhia a, tuate’ lakah: ‘kipumsilna le puansawpna’ a thupina zong kihel hi. Tan 7 a tun ciangin pastorpa tawh Lai Siangtho sinkhawmin piangthak hi. A zudawn le za-zat hong khawl hi. A lungnop loh ciangin gym ah basketball kimawl leh a lung nuam sa hi. Tu in Plus II tentan a tuah khit ciangin bang thuteng piang hiam, ngai dih ni. Ama’ kammal tektek tawh a gen thute ahi hi.

2018 kumin Holbrook Indian School panin ka tuak ta hi. Ka nun-takna Jesu ka pia-a, zu le zaa tuamtuamte nusia in, ka nuntakna manh nei dingin Ama’n hong huh hi. Ka pate khat’ khekhap zui-in, engineer suah ding ka khentat hi. Nebraska state sunga, Adventist sang khat ahi, Union College ah, College sangnaupang thak ka suak hi.

Tua college a mi khempeuh gual-huai thei mahmah in, lungnuam thei mahmah uh hi. Hong thei ngeilote nangawn in hong hopih tangtangh uh hi. Ka class sungah ahi-a, choir group ah ahi zongin, kimawlna ah ahizongin lawm tampi ka nei hi. Religion sangnaupangte in Lai Siangtho sin khawm dingin hong zawn zel uh a, biakpiak khopnate zong nuam ka sa hi. Friday nitak a, Vesper program zong nuam ka samahmah hi. Ka sangkah nadingin sum tampi a bei ding lam ka theih ma ciangciang, ka lung nuam mahmah hi. Ka leibat sazian ciaptehna laidal hong kipiak ciangin, cih nading thei loin ka kigaih hi.

A kumkik ciangin Navajo Reservation sangah kah dingin ka khentat hi. Online pan ka zonzon leh, New Mexico a, technical college ah engineer

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sang hoih mahmah khat ka mukha leuleu hi. Tua Private Christian sangah sum tam beiluat kul loin pilna ngah theih ding ka lawp mahmah hi. Ahizon-gin tualai ka tun ciangin pawldang Christian sangnaupang ka kikholh theih pih ding na om lo hi. Zu le zaa zatkik ding ze-etna in hong tuamcip kik hi. Tua panin kikemzo napi ing in, kei kia pangpa ka kisa mahmah hi.

Second semester ciangin ka omzo nawn kei hi. Holbrook a ka siate ka hopih kik hi. Lamdang takin ka lampi ding kihong a, Holbrook ah task-force dean sep kawmin ka sang ka zop theih nadingin hong phal uh hi. Tech-nical College le Holbrook Indian School aki lamdanzia pen van le lei hiziau hi. Holbrook pen ka inn hi a, ka ciahkik nuam hi. Union College sang ka zo nuam a, leibat nei loin buaih ngahsa in ka ciah theih nadingin Pasian’ kian-gah ka ngen hi. Pasian in kei’ adingin geelna hong neihsak lam ka thei hi. Ama’ nung ka zuihden zawh nadingin thu hong ngetsak un.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phualpi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata i sumpite tawh i cidamna phualpi ah a cial nihna ahi: thauluatna, lungtang natna, zunkhum, lungkiatna le kisih bawlna cihte American naupangte leh khangnote sungah a kiam nading center kizosiang ta ding hi.

By Adrain Wiles

2. Khualzinna ah Hong Cingden ARIZONA, U.S.A. | July 10

Jodi Opitz, 39

Ka innkuanpa Derek tawh nai 3 sung kihawlna Holbrook Sev-enth-day Adventist Indian School panin Arizona state khuapi ahi Phoenix ah mawtaw tawh ka pai uh hi. Holbrook ah registrar Adminis-trative assistant ka sem a, Derek in maintenance assistant sem hi. Tua Sabbath nitaklam in, ke’n ka jeep uh hawl in, Derek pen ka nungah tut kawmin ihmu hi.

Phoenix ah nitaklam

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13. Thumaan Tawmcik 13th SABBATH | Sept. 25

Niang Mung, 21

Sun-an nek madeuh, team makaipa in Tennessee a Maryville ah Niang a pii dingin a pai kawmin hong call hi. Niang a gil kial hi. Sun-an nek kawmin a lawmte tawh zingsang-a a laibuzuak vai uh kikum dingin kiging sa-in om hi. Tua leh nupi khatin saii panin van pawlkhat la in a maw-taw sungah a guan mu hi. Tua hun pen sun-an nek ma-in mi khat tawh kiho theih hun ahi hi.

Niang zong tua nupinu kiangah nuihmai takin vapai hi.

“Hello, Ma’am. Kei ka min Niang hi, Sangnaupang hi ing. Tu khalsung innkuan manphatna le kimlepam huhna tawh kisai-in pulaak dingin hanciam sawm ungh,” a cih kawmin a khutkhai sunga cidamna laibu lakah, mehtehte ama’ mel dangsak loin koici huanding cih a hilh laibu khat lakhia in a lak hi. Tua nu in laibu sangpah in a kawm a en hi. Nupinu a daih dide amuh ciangin Niang in anhuan danding hilhna laibu (cookbook) khat lakhia leuleu in, “Inn ah an na huan nuam hia?” ci-in dong hi. Tua khit ciangin zingsang biakpiakna laibu-a kibawl, E.G.white’ gelh thulu 13 khawng a pha, “Khazih Kiang Zuatna” khat lak leuleu hi.

Tua nu in a khut sunga laibu 3te en hi. Lunglut mahmah leh kilawm hi. “Tuni a nong tuahkhak zenzen khial teh. Ka check bu lah pua lo, sum lah pua lo hi veng” acih ciangin Niang in, “A lemnak leh card zong kilathei lel ee” ci hi. “Oh! Ke’n ka debit card tua bangin zang nuam ke’ng, ka pasal in tuadan deih lo” ci hi. Hi taleh tua laibute tawitawi lai hi. Piakik nuam

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“No!” ci-in a lu pei-in deihtakin awngkhia hi. Kileh hei-in a hat tawpin taai veva hi. Tua pasalte’n lamdang sa uh hi. “Oh No! Taai kei oh” khatpa in ci hi. Ahih hangin Niang khawl lo hi. Lau mahmah hi. ‘Naupangte a ki matsimna tangthute’ za ngei hi. Tua mite in olno takin a matzawh ding uh kithei hi.

“Topa aw, hong huh in. Hehpihna tawh hong dal in” ci hi. ‘Bang hun ciangin hong man tam,’ ci in dipkua mahmah hi. Na khempeuh Pasian ap hi. “Khialhna khatpeuh ka neih leh hong maisak in,” ci-in thu ngen hi. A delh lai uh hiam? ci in ngaizel hi. Bangmah a zakloh ciangin, tawmvei sung a khawl hi. A dip kua mahmah hi.

Tua khit ciangin naupang pawlkhat lamdawt zui in sanginn lamah a paite’ aw a za hi. A lung nuamtuam mahmah hi. Tuate tawh ton in nuamtakin sang zuan thei hi. Ama’ sang-a nauzaw mi thumte’ nung a zui hi. Migol nihte dinna mun a tun uh ciangin, kuamah mu nawnlo uh hi. Niang a lungsim nuamtuam hi. “Pa Pasian aw, nong kep manin nuam mahmah ing,” ci hi. Migol nihte amau’ sangin a golzaw Pasian in na hemkhia hi.

Abeisa kum 10 lai-in, Sabbath 13na sumpi tawh Kumpi sanga kah Niang mah bangin refugee naupang ahi pawlkhat te Adventist pawlpi sangah ki piangsak zo hi. Tu kuata i sumpi tawh refugee sangnaupang pawlkhat Ad-ventist pilna sin dingin i huh leuleu ding hi. Phal takin sumpi nong piak ma-nun lungdam mahmah hi.

By Andrew McChesney

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kikhawm dingin ka nu zong a zawn kawm ding ka hih manun ka zekai khin pian uh hi. Guah tam mahmah sawnsawn hi. Mual le guam kantan ka hih manun lamkawite ah kidop mahmah kul hi. Ka hat-sak mahmah hangin mawtaw dangte’n hong makhelh ziahziah hi. Lamkim laitak khawng ka tun uh ciangin ka mawtaw tui uh hong bei hi. Tua leh ka mawtaw uh hong kilehpei in lamgei buanlak hong kidenna hi. Tua khit teh Derek tuan na lamah puksuk in lampi tungah meter 75 bang leh-taal sukkik hi. Lamdang takin hong khawl thei bilbel a, a khawl ciangin hong thoto kikin a pei 4 tawh hong dingkik lian hi.

Cih nading thei loin ka nupa-un ka liing uh hi. Tua khit ciangin Derek in mawtaw kongkhak hon sawm hi. A sunglamah tumpheisuak ahih manin honzawh ding hideklo hi. Tua leh Derek in a gimnam khat a za hi. Mawtaw a kuang ding hita, cih a theih ciangin nakpi takin, “Taikhia meng ni ei” hong ci hi. Tua khitphet leh ka mawtaw kong uh hong kihongg hi. “Bang ci naivua? A senpy uh hia?” ci-in nupi khat in kong hong hon kawmin hong hopih a, lamdang ka sa mahmah uh hi. Tua nupi in tuahsiatna khempeuh hong gen a, hong huh dingin hongpai ahihna hong gen hi.

Tua zawh a sawt loin mi honkhat in ka mawtaw uh hong uum in ding ngeingai uh hi. Vandom mawtawpi sam lo maw? Ci in hong dong uh hi. Bangmah vaihawm thei kei ung, ka cih khit phet un vandom mawtawpi ka gei vuah hong khawlvat hi. Tua vandom mawtaw hawlpa pen vandom com-pany neipa hi a, ha-siavuan khatin a sapna hangin a pai a hi hi.

“Kong huh thei dia?” Hong ci hi. Tua khit ciangin ka sap lohpi un palikbu khat hong tunga, mawtawte a khawlsak hi. A sawt loin ka mawtaw uh vandom mawtawpi in hong domkhiat sakin, hong puaksak a, a pai ding hita hi. A siatna teng ka veel uh hi. A peite nihbek kipeithei lai hi. Tua lo khempeuh siamang khin hi. Aman hita hi.

Derek tawh mawtawpi sungah ka tu uh hi. Phoenix ah ka lawmte khat tawh a kimu nuam kawm ka hi uh a, ka geelna khempeuh uh a mawkna suak khinta hi. Ka ngeina uh leh ka ui uh tawh ka zinzel uh ahih hi. Ahizon-gin tua ni in ka ui uh ka tonpih kei uh hi. Lampi pamlam mualdung lamah ka tuahsiatna panglamah keen sang mahmah om hi. Derek le kei pen tawmbek ka liam bilbel uh hi.

Banghangin mawtaw dangte nawkkha vetlo ka hi uh hiam? Cih lamdang ka sa mahmah uh hi. Koi bangin taklamah pialkhia thei ka hi uh, cih ka thei zokei uh hi. Bangci bangin lamnawl kawmte taih kha lo a, pi 100 val bang a sang guamthuk sungah kia kha lo ka hi uh hiam? Cih lamdang ka sa mahmah uh hi.

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A phi khat bek om a, Pasian in ka nuntakna uh hong kepsak man ahi hi. Ka zinkhiat mapek un Ama’n hong kem ahi hi. Ka nung theih uh ciangin, tua ni in, ka lawmte thum le innkuante in thu hong ngetsak uh ahi hi. Pasian in amaute’ thungetna dawng hi. Ka tuahsiat khit uh nailang ma in Holbrook Indian School panin ka lawmte uh hong tungin hong pi khia uh hi.

Late 94:22 ah, “Ahih hangin Topa pen keima munkip, keima Pasian, ka belh suangpi a suak khinta hi.” Holbrook Indian School ah zong Pasian in tamveipi hong kemden hi. Tua hangin Pasian’ tungah ka lungdam mahmah uh hi.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phualpi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata i sumpite tawh i cidamna phualpi ah a cial nihna ahi: thauluatna, lungtang natna, zunkhum, lungkiatna le kisih bawlna cihte American naupangte leh khangnote sungah a kiam nading center kizosiang ta ding hi.

By Jodi Opitz

3. Nangkia Hikeiteh ARIZONA, U.S.A. | July 17

Aliandra, 17

Naupangte’ tuahkhak dinga kilawm lo tampitak ka neulai in ka phukha hi. Mi tam-pite zukham, zakhamin a om uh ka mu ngei hi. Tomcik sung lungnop nadingin kanza a teepte zong ka mu hi.

Ka nu pen Navajo mi hi a, ka pa pen Mexico mi ahi hi. Hunkhat lai in ka innkuan sun-guh nuam mahmah in, ki-it mah-mah ung a, Sunday simin ka kikhawm den uh hi. Tua zawh ciangin ka nu zudawn kipan a, na khempeuh kilumlet kipanta hi. Numeino khat ka hih manin, ka pa in ka nu a khut tawh benggawp a, khat veivei ciang tawh a sat ka muh ciangin ka lau

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12. Mi Nih leh Pasian Khat NAD REFUGEES | Sept. 18

Niang Muang, 21

Inn pua lamah a mial lai pi-in sang pai dingin Kum 10 apha, Niang thoto hi. Patau simpian hi. Ni simin a sangkah ding patau den hi. Myanmar panin refugee in U.S. a tun uh kumkhat khawng pha pan a, Goergia State ah sangkah haksa mahmah hi. Mikang pau siamlo hi. Lawm haulo hi. Sangah khuazing pi in khe tawh pai kul hi. A pa’n zanin na sem ahih manin kha manlo hi. A nu’n a naunu ngeklai pen inn ah kem hi.

A paikhiat ma-in Niang in thu ngen hi. “Pa aw, sangkah ni khat hong zawhpih zel in. Siate tawh buaina hong neisak kei in. Ka sang paina ah hong kem in. Amen.”

A gik mahmah a back-pack a nungah pua-in, khuazing lai pi-in inn pan pusuak hi. Lamdawt zui leh minit 10 sungbek paiding-a, inn pawlkhat a khenkhit ciangin gamlak nawk ding hi. Lampi ah naupang pawlkhat muleh a tonpih dingin nuamtuam ding hi. Himah leh tua gamlak a nawk laitakin nau-pang dang kuamah mukha lo hi. Huih vot sialsial hi. Singkungte vom ngem ngam hi.

Thakhat thu-in migol nih a mai-ah kimu mil mial hi. Khatpa in a khut-ah ip kaang hawm khat tawi in ki vei dapdap hi. Tuapa in a ipkaang laamtoin, “Hey, hih nong puaksak dia?” ci hi. Dotna lamdang khat hi ei, ci-in Niang in ngaihsun a, khawl in tawm nungkin hi. Tua mite’n a mai hong nehphei uh hi. Patau kawmin Niang in a kimlepam en a, a lawmte a om hiam, ci-in en hi. Kuamah mulo hi. Tua mite enkik hi. Amau gel le amah bek om uh hi. Amaute gol in saang uh a, amah pen neu in tom hi. Niang in tua ip-kaang a sang diam?

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Himah taleh refugee camp sunga Adventist biakinn sungah a kikhop uh ciangin a pa’ lungnop hithiatnate mu zel hi. Lai Siangtho sunga Khris le Satan kidonate simzel hi. A pa’ gente a maanzaw ahihlam thei in, ama’ tun-gah a khial mite maisak zawh dingin khentat hi.

Tua zawh ciangin Jimmy pen Adventist pastor khat suak-a, U.S. ah a tengta hi. Tuazawh a sawt loin Thailand refugee camp sunga a theih ngei innkuan tampite North America sungtengah a kizelhlam nungtheih hi. Amaute in Adventist biakinnte zongin va kikhawm uh a, ahih hangin mikang pau siam lo uh ahih manin thu manphate telzo taktak lo uh hi. Tampitak lungkia uh hi. Tuate’ kiangah vahawh in thapiak ding Jimmy in lunggulh mahmah hi. Amaute small group khat in om in, amau’ pau tawh vantung Pa-sian a biak theih ding uh deihsak mahmah hi.

Nakpi tak-a thungetna tawh, Jimmy in pawlpi 3 phutzota hi. Ahi zongin a innkuanpihte vaak nadingin hunbit in na sem ahih manin, tua conti-nent sunga om Karen Adventist refugee 2,000 bang a omte kiangah va hawh nadingin hun le fund kicing ngah zolo hi. “Pasian in ka lungsim le ka kisapna thei lel hi,” Jimmy in ci hi. Tu in North American Division sung-a Adventist Refugee and Immigrant Ministries ah Karen church planting consultant a sep kawmin, Carolina Conference ah pastor sem hi.

“Pasian in a tawntungin hong makaih a, ngimna hong neihsak hi” Jimmy in ci hi. 2011 kum-a, Sabbath 13na sumpi khenkhat tawh North America sunga refugee te i huh ngei khin hi. Tua sumte tawh U.S. gam sung le Canada gam sunga om refugee innkuante in amau’ pau ciat tawh Pasian a biak theih nadingun kikhop nading pawlpi phuhna le kimlepam a phakzawh nadingun a vaihawmsak ding-a pai, Jimmy’ khualzinna ah zong i huh hi. Tua bangin a sepna tungtawnin, a beisa kum sawm sungin tua gam sungtengah Karen pawlpi 55 kiphut khinta hi.

Tua khempeuh pen pawlpi mite’ piak khiatna le Jimmy banga a hehna le khasiatna khempeuh maisakna le itna tawh a laih khia mite’ sepkhopna hangin hong piangkhia gah hoih ahi hi.

Tu kuata sung, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh North American Division sunga refugee te i huh kik ding hi. Phal taka nong piak uh sumpite hangin lungdam mahmah hi.

By Terri Saelee, Coordinator, Adventist Refugee and Immi-grant Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North Ameri-can Division

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mahmah hi. Ka thahatna in cinzo lo ahih manin bangmah ka cih thei tuan kei hi.

A siat gamtatna: innlelo a suksiatna, zukham kawma mawtaw hawlna, le a tuamtuam hangin ka nu pen thong lut zel pusuak zel in om hi. Tua in ka lungsim nasak mahmah hi. Tua kawmkalah ka pa inn ah om ngei mel lo lai hi. Mexico ah tamvei pitak kipuak a, ahizongin US ah hong ciahkik zel hi. Ka birthday nite na ngawnin hong wish ngei lo hi. Himah taleh Pasian in hong kemtoto hi. Hong kemcing ding leitung pa hoih ka neihloh hangin, hong it mahmah Vantung Pa ka nei hi.

Tuabang pipi mahin ka haksatnate kilangh sak loin ka imcip den hi. Mi pawlkhat in ka pianzia hong dongh zel uh hi. Kuama’n ka haksatna hong ngaihsak loh ciangin haksa mahmah hi. Ka golzawk tawh kizui in ka kikhel hi. Ka naute gup cihtakin ka gum hi. Mi tawh ki lailai in, sang pelhzel in, kanza teep ka kipan hi.

Kum 12 ka phak ciangin ka nulepate ka sut loh ding ka kiphawk thei hi. Aih hangin koici gamtat ding cih ka thei tuankei hi. Kumkhat kumnih khit ciangin Holbrook Adventist Indian School ah tan 9 kah dingin ka paikik hi. Sang ah ka tun ciangin Jesu’ hong itna ka phawk thei hi. Beisa ka hunte’ kawmkalah Pasian in Holbrook ah ka kah nading-a kipan ngimna hong nei-hsak hi.

Nuntakna ka telzia hong kikhel hi. Tu in Pasian in ka nun sung tawntung hong ompihna ka theita hi. Ka gei-ah hong Ompih den a, beisa hun ah bangci mi ka hi hiam, cihte tawh lunghimawh nawn loin ka kalsuan zawh nadingin tha hong guan hi. Tuni ciang dong, ka sepna peuh ah tha hong guanin, khentatna khempeuh ah hong huh a, ka lungkiat ciangin tha hong khauhsak den hi.

Ka deihbel Lai Siangtho mun, Paikhiatna 14:14 “Topa in note-a' dingin hong dosak ding a, note ahih leh na om hithiat ding uh hi bek hi,” cih ahi hi. Na kiphal nakleh Pasian in na khempeuhah gualzawhna hong pia ding hi. Ama’ khut sungah nang hong tawi-a, nang’ adingin hong dosak hi. Nang-kia bek hong ki nusia lo-a, keikia bek hong ki nusia lo hi.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phualpi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata i sumpite tawh i cidamna phualpi ah a cial nihna ahi: thauluatna, lungtang natna, zunkhum, lungkiatna le kisih bawlna cihte American naupangte leh khangnote sungah a kiam nading center kizo ta ding hi.

By Aliandra, as told to Diana Fish

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4. Itna tawh Tuam’ ARIZONA, U.S.A. | July 24

Shanel Draper, 24

Khuata khat ah a khangkhia ka hih hangin, zukham, zakham, le gitlohna ka mu den hi. Tuate pen lamdang ka sa nawnkei hi. Sang huangte hoih takin ki uum taleh tuate in sang khan sungah zukhamte, za khamte le, kitotnate dal zo tuan lo hi. Khangnote in zu le zaa te sangkhaan sungah hong pua in, kitawng ngeingai den uh hi. Tua pen tan 8 ciang bek hipan lai hi. Khatveivei, bus khawlna panin ka inn dong uh khe tawh ka pai ding ciangin lauhuai thei mahmah hi. Tuate hang mah in ka nu le ka ni in kumpi sang panin hong lakhia in private sangah hong kahsak hi dingin ka um hi.

Ka nu’n pen U.S gam New Mexico state a, Private sang khat ah hong kahsak nuam napi, ka ngah zo kei hi. Tua manin New Mexico sung mah ah sang dang khat ah pai dingin ka khentat uh hi. Ahizongin tua sangah bawda om loin, day school bek ahih manin lem lo kik hi. A tawpna ah, ka sanggamte uh nupakhat in a tate uh Holbrook ah a kahsak lam uh ka nu’n hong theikhia hi. Inn panin sanginn gamla simpian taleh ka nu le ka ni in tua lai ah ka kah ding hoih sa pen uh hi.

Tua ahih manin 2010 kum, August in tan 9 ka kah hi. Innkuanpihte tawh kikhencil pen baih het lo hi. Ahizongin bangmah buaina om lo hi. Ka kigin kholh loh khat om a, tua pen Bible class ahi hi. Ka nite zui in ka kikhop zel hangin, kei kia inn ah om ding hong phal loh manun a zuizel bek ka hi hi. Ka ni in biakinn tuamtuam ah hong kikhop pih banah, Vacation Bible Sangte nangawn ah hong paipih ngei hi. Tua nangawn Lai Siangtho koici sin ding, cih ka thei tuan kei hi.

Holbrook ka tun ciangin, Christian sang khat ah Lai Siangtho sinzia ding theilo khat adingin buai huai mahmah hi. Himah taleh damdamin Jesu’ thu ka sin a, i nuntakna sungah Ama’n hong koici ompih cih ka sin toto hi.

Kum 4 khit ciangin Holbrook panin buaih ka ngah hi. College ah kum 2

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Tu kuata i Sabbath sumpi tawh North American Division sunga refu-gee te i huh kik ding hi. Pa’ thungetna mah bangin na Pasian in na thungetna te uh hong sang ta hen. Na piakkhiatna hangin Pasian a mu, mite tawh van-tungah na kimuh ding ngaihsun khol in.

By Terri Saelee Coordinator, Adventist Refugee and Immigrant Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division

11. Thangpaihnate Beisak NAD REFUGEES | Sept. 11

Jimmy Shwe, 51

Kum 7 pha panin gammang tulakah galtai dingin kiseh in. Na koici ngaihsut hiam? Tua pen Asia gam nisuahna-khanglam gam khat ahi, ni dangin Bur-ma kici, Myanmar gam sunga Jimmy Shwe’ phuutkhak thutak ahi hi. Pasalno khat ahihna tawh thuneite tungah Jimmy thangpaai mah-mah hi. Gamlak mun khatah, a si tadingin ki ngaihsun hi.

A suahtak kik zenzen leh minam galkap sungah lut in, phulak kik ding khentat hi. A kikhen zawh uh kum 2 khit ciangin Jimmy in a pa Thailand refugee camp ah mukik hi. Ahizongin a pa in Jimmy’ khentatna thukimpih lo hi. Tua sangin pastor sem-in a mite’ kiangah Pasian’ itna le Tawntung nuntakna thu gen dingin hanthawn zaw hi. A hehna le a thangpaihnate ki mang ngilh bawl zawhding pen Jimmy’ adingin baih het lo hi.

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leuleu uh hi. Michigan phalbi pen pa in thuakzo lo hi. Iraq galkap lai-a, a ngah liammate pen khuadam luat ciangin suakkik zel hi. California a refugee te in a tate uh kumpi sangah kha uh hi. Ahizongin pa in a tanumeite Advent-ist sangah kahsak nuam hi. Ahizongin sangsap ding haksa sa hi. Tua hikei mahleh zong koi ah kha ding cih, a thei tuankei hi. Thu ngen ngen hi. “Topa Pasian aw, ka tanute in Adventist pilna a sinzawh nadingun hong huh in. Ad-ventist pawlpimi khat limlim hong musak in” ci hi.

Nikhat, cimawhte’ adingin an kihawmna munah Pa vahawh hi. An ngakin a om laitakin, nasemte khat tawh kiho kha a, tuapa pen Adventist pas-tor khat ahihlam a thei hi. Tuabanah, tuapa in, tua anhawmna bank pen Ad-ventist pawlpite’ vaihawmna tawh kihawm ahihlam a gen hi. Inn a tun ciangin Nu kiangah tua thuhoih a genpah hi. Amaute in sangah aciah kik uh ciangin a hoihzaw nasep angah zawh nadingun beltakin sum khol cinten uh hi. Tua a manpha mahmah a sumte uh a tanute’ tuition fee-a zat dingin khentat uh hi.

Tuazawh asawt loin, Nulepa zong a tanute uh ahi, kum 9 khat le kum 11 apha tawh tua pawlpi sangah va tung uh hi. Siapinu’ zum sungah tu uh a, a mai uh taimahmah hi. Amaute’ mai-ah siapinu leh pastorpa tu uh a, ki en giaugiau kawmin, tua nulepa le a tanute uh a en zel uh hi. Tua innkuante’ lawpmahmahna in a lungsim uh sukha mahmah hi. Ahizongin a tanute’ sang-sap dingin nulepa’ sumkhol pen kicing hetlo hi.

“Na tanute uh hilai-ah sang kahsak nuam mahmah ungh. Ahi zongin, kaamsiatna tawh na sum uh pen cingzo lo hi.” Siapinu’n acih kawmin pas-torpa enphei kawmzel hi. Pastorpa’ mit ah hehpihna lim a muh ciangin siapi-nu’n zong tha piakik a, “Bangbang hileh naupangte sangah na kahsak nung ei maw” cikik hi. “Upna tawh kalsuan in Pasian muang peuh leng hong piang lel ding hi” cihbeh hi.

Uham 4te le numeino 2te a vekun sual tungah khukdin sukin thu a ngenkhawm uh hi. “Pa aw, Nong huhna ka kisam uh hi, hih a manpha mah-mah numeinote’ sangsap ding hong sik in” ci-in Pastorpa in thu ngen hi. Inn-kuante a ciah khit a sawt loin, siapinu phone ki call hi. Tua pen North Ameri-can Division sunga, Adventist Refugee and Immigration Minnistries makai-nu kiang pan ahi hi. Pawlpi sangnaupang refugee a om leh tuate’ adingin sangsap piaksak dingin a zasak ahi hi. Tua sum pen leitung bup tuam a om Adventist te in 2011 kum Sabbath 13na mission sumpi a khiat sung panin kihuh ding ahi hi. Siapinu’n ama’ bil na ngawn um ngamlo phial zah dongin lamdang sa in nuam mahmah hi. Manlang takin Pa kiangah phone pah a, a tanute’ sangsap ding kimuta ahihna zasak pah hi. “Pasian in i thungetna hong dawng taktak ding ahihna ka theihsa mah hi” ci-in hong awngkhia beba hi.

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lai ka sin khit ciangin adang zong ka sinbeh hi. Ka manlah mahmah a, Seventh-day Adventist khat ka hihna le Jesu ka itna ka mangngilh dekdek phial hi. Texas a ka lawmte khat kiangah ka hawh laitakin, nu bang-a ka neih ka ni, dam loin zoto tungzel, tuakzel in a omlam ka za kha hi. Tua ahih manin ka birthday ni in vanleng tawh Arizona a om ka ni veh dingin, genkhol lopi in ka leng hi. Hong nusiat dong ka ni tawh hun ka zangh khawm uh hi.

Hong nusiat khit ciangin inn pan paikhia in Texas ah ka paikik pah hi. Ahizongin ka lung nuam hetlo hi. Ka lawmte khatin Holbrook ah nasep khat ki-hong, ci in hong zaksak ciangin, ka delh pah hi. Ka tun ciangin sangnaupangte tawh ka semkhawm a, ka lung nuam mahmah hi. Kum kik ciangin, ka sang in scholarship coordinator dingin hong samkik uh hi. Holbrook ah ka ciahkikna in ka nuntakna hong khelsak a, kiim le pam khempeuh in itna tawh hong tuam ta hi.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Sev-enth-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phualpi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata i sumpite tawh i cidamna phualpi ah a cial nihna ahi: thauluatna, lungtang natna, zunkhum, lungkiatna le kisih bawlna cihte American naupangte leh khangnote sungah a kiam nading center kizo ta ding hi.

By Shanel Draper

5. Damsakpa’ Damsak dingin Akemnu ARIZONA, U.S.A. | July 31

Nannette Ortiz, 53

Holbrook Seventh-day Ad-ventist Indian School ah numei tam-pite’ omna ah bawda-uk sep pen bang tawh kibangin na um hiam? Holbrook Indian School ah ka tun cil in Lily tawh ka kimu hi. Kum 17 apha pan tua numeino in a pii bangin hong ngaihsun pah lian hi. Nasep khempeuh hong huh hi. “Na moh bawl kong huh dia, pi?” hong cih kei leh zong, “Lai Siangtho taangte suanglaipi tungah kong gelh huh

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dia?” hong ci hamtang thei hi.

Hong dot theih thukhat ka phawk lai, a sangkah kipat lai-a hong dot khat ahi hi. “Nung kum in nasep azah nih ka lakloh phamawh ahihlam na thei hiam?” hong ci hi. Bang acihnopna hi ding hiam? Nung kumin a lung kialua ahihmanin amahmah ki gimsak sawm ahihlam ka nungtheih hi.

Holbrook Indian School hong tung numei a tamzaw pen lungsim vangik puakkhop tawh hong tung tamzaw uh hi. Tan 2 numeino, Rose in a pa amahmah a ki sihbawlna thu hong gen ngei hi. Nitak khat, numei bawda panin ciah in lup ka sawm laitakin, tua numeino ka kiangah hong tai-in ka ang ah hong kidenna hi. “Ihmu thei ke’ng. Ka pa in paden-maan panin hong nuihsan phei hi.” hong ci hi. Ke’n zong a khaan sungah ciahpih kikin, thu ngenin, la ka sakpih hi. Kei zong ka sangnaupang numeite’ thuaknate ngaihsunsun in ka ihmu thei kei hi.

Sang hon zawh kha 2 sung bang, Lily in mang’sia bekbek a matden-na hong gen den hi. A mang’siate hong gen ka zakzak ciangin hih sangah ka tuntheihna thu ka telsemsem hi. Ke’n zong amaute’ gual ka hih lai in tua bang mang’siate ka man zel hi. Pasian in Lily tawh ka kizopna a kician zaw semsem dingin hong deih a, tua bang mangsiate tungah gualzawhna a ngah nadingin ka hanthot ding hong deih hi. “Tua bang mang’siate tungah ka gual-zawh nadingin Pasian in hong huh hi,” ci-in ka gengen hi.

Sangnaupang numeite pen khal sungin a tamzaw sangah omsuak uh hi. A inn vuah a om uh ciangin buaina tamthei lua ahihman hi. Rose zong sang khak sung a nu tawh tawmcik va om pak bekin hong tungkik pah hi. Bawda ah hong tun ciangin kong ka honsak leh a kiim a paamteng en laplap kawmin, “Inn a om sang’ hoihzaw ei” ci hi.

Lily ahihleh ciah nuam lo hi. Bang hangin tua bangin ciah noploh nading zah in ut lo hiam cih, tuni dongin ka thei zo kei hi. Tua pen kei’ buai ding hi loin, kei’ nasep pen deidan nei loin amaute’ tungah itna lah ding ahi hi. Ahangin kei pen amaute a kemnu ka hi a, Pasian pen a Damsakpa ahi hi.

Tu kaal sung Piansakna Tangthu ka sin kawmun Lily kiangah, “Hih sanginn ah nong kah ma-in hih tangthute na thei ngei hiam?” ka cih leh, “Thei lo e,” hong ci hi. “Lai Siangtho e leh? Na mu ngei limlim hia?” ka cih ciangin a lu hong peisan hi. Holbrook Indian School hong tun ciangin Lai Siangtho a mu pan ahi hi.

Mi tampite in Lai Siangtho pen phuahtawm tangthu bangin a ngaihsutna Lily ka hilh hi. “Nang e leh, hih tangthu na koici ngaihsut a?” ci-a ka dot leh, lung hiang lo takin hong hici dawnkik hi. “Ka math siapa uh Mr. Hubbard in laihilh hong kipat ma-in ki-apna tomno hong neihpih den hi.”

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kikhawm thei pah uh hi.

A sawt loin tua lai-a, a mipihte uh, Lao mite zawn uh a, amau’ pau tawh a kikhop theih nadingun, tua pawlpi in amaute kikhop nading inn khaanneu khat kawmsak uh hi. Tua small group hong khang semsemin tu-in biakinn khat neizo ta uh a, tua lai ah Lamphai in vantungmi’ lamlahna thute teci a pang hi.

2011 kum, Sabbath 13na i sumpite hangin North American Division sungah Lao pawlpi tampi hong piangkhia ziahziah hi. Tu kuata Sabbath 13na i sumpi tawh Lamphai te’ pawlpi tawh a kibang pawlpi tuamtuamte ah pas-torte le vantuamtuamte i puakzo ding hi. Sumpi nongpiak manun lungdam mahmah hi.

By Terri Saelee Coordinator, Adventist Refugee and Im-migrant Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division

10. Buaina Sungah Pasian NAD REFUGEES | Sept. 4

Iraq Innkuan Khat

“Iraq ah ka omlai un mi khatin ka pa kiangah Jesu’ thu gen hi. Ka pa’n zong Jesu it a Adventist pawlpi ah kikhawm hi. Ka nu’n ahihleh a pupa upna vuah kipsuak dingin khentat hi.” Tawlkhat khit ciangin innkuante’ adingin Iraq ah nuntak haksa mahmah hi. Tanu nihte leh a nu’ nuntakzia muanhuai nadingin Pa pen lunghimawh a, U.S ah refu-gee in va om uh hi.

Kum khat sungbang Michigan ah a omkhit uh ciangin, California ah piang

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hawlkhit uh ciangin Nebraska State, Grand Island tung uh a, tua lai-ah Mi-kang pau siam lua takei leh nasem adeih setzung khat thu a zakha uh hi. Ahi zongin tualai a tun uh ciangin tua company ah mi na dimkhin a, deihbeh nawnlo uh hi. Tua lai-ah tate 6 tawh, inn neilo, nasep neilo banah mikang pau siamlo lailai, bangcih ding?

Buaina kawmkalah, Lamphai in U.S. lamlianpite ah mawtaw a hawl ding kingam phalo hi. Mawtaw hawl a sinkhin lim, California ah driver’s license ngahthak hi-in, California-a a lawmte nih in Nabraska ah a kha uh hi a, khatin inn mawtaw hawlsakin khatin vanpua mawtaw hawlsak hi. A lawmte un tualai-ah giakpih manloin kilehkik uh hi.

A muantenguh phone call kawikawi in, huhna ngen kawikawi uh a, a tawpna ah tai 750 a gamlatna Michigan State, Holland ah nasep om khathei ding cih za leuleu uh hi. Lamphai in U.S. lampi tungah hawlloh phamawh ta ahih manin Pasian in ompih ding cih muanna tawh nai 12 sung kihawlna Michigan lam hong zuanta uh hi. A tate nih le a van tenguh tawh a pasal in vanpua mawtaw hawl in, pai masa a, ama’n a tate li tawh inn mawtaw hawlin a nungah zui hi.

Nuam takin Chicago tung uh hi. Lamphai in a pasal pha tinten dingin hanciam napi, lampi ah mawtaw tamlua mahmah ahih manin a lawmpa pha loin mansuah hi. Koilam tawn ding, cih buai gawp a, cih nading thei loin gas zuakna ah a khawl hi. A nupa un phone nei omlo uh hi. A lawmpa a hopih theih nading lampi omlo ahih manin koilam pai ding cih ngaihsun thei nawn lo hi. lametna khatbek om a, Pasian ahi hi. Thailand ah a omlai un Pasian’ nasemte in, Pasian’ thu a vagen zelna hangin a lungdam mahmah hi. A ta li teng tawh khukdin sukin thu ngen uh hi.

A et uh leh, pasal melhoih khat amau’ lam zuanin hong pai hi. Tuapa in, “Ka upmawh hong gen ning, Na pasal, Veuy a zong na hia?” ci hi. “Hee, himah” ci-in lamdang sakawmin dawng buatbuat hi. A lungsim sungah lamdang sakawmin, “Bang hanga hih midangpi khatin ka pasal’ min thei ahi tam?” ci-in a ngaihsutsut laitakin, “Na mawtaw sungah lut inla, hong zui oh, na muh mateng hong zonpih ning ei” acih kawmin a mawtaw sung lamah kihei phei kik hi.

Thumang takin Lamphai in zui pah a, lamet loh pi in a mai-ah a lawmpa’ mawtaw a galmuh hi. Lungdamna khituite luang hi. Tu mipa’ tun-gah lungdam ko dingin a kihei pheileh tuapa na om nawnlo hi.

Innkuante cidam takin Michigan, Holland tungta uh a, Veuy le Lam-phai in Adventist innkuan khat’ neih ahi, gunkuang bawlna company ah nasep ngah pah uh hi. Tua lai-a Holland Seventh-day Adventist Biakinn ah

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Hong ci hi.

“Tu ni in zong na khat peuh a piangsak om lopi in ama’ thu-in mawk pian ngeilo hi.” Lily le numei dangte tawh ka kihona in 1 Korin 3:6 sunga, Paul gen, “Ke’n khaici ka vawh a, Apollos in tui buak in, ahizongin Pasian in khangsak hi” acih ka phawk kikkik hi.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phualpi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata i sumpite tawh i cidamna phualpi ah a cial nihna ahi: thauluatna, lungtang natna, zunkhum, lungkiatna le kisih bawlna cihte American naupangte leh khangnote sungah a kiam nading center kizo ta ding hi.

By Nannette Ortiz

6. Tuipigei Aihkeh Sehnelgam ARIZONA, U.S.A. | Aug. 7

Diana Fish, 56

Ka pasal, Loren tawh ka sunmang uh ka semkhia uh hi. Amah pen mi thapiak siam mah-mah a, ke’n Adventist Health Cen-ter ah ka sem hi. Florida tuipigei-a om pen nuam ka sa uh hi. Ahizong banghiam khat kisam ka kisa uh hi. Ka nupa un full-time ministry ah ka sepkhop theih nadingun Pa-sian kiangah thu ka ngen uh hi. Siang gen lehang, ka tu ka tate’ omna Tennessee ah ka om uh za-hin mundang nuam kasa kei uh hi.

North American Division a, Women’s Ministries makaih khawmpi ah ka kikhawm hi. Tua lai ah nakpi taka thungetna le Pasian’ kiangah ki-apna kinei khawm hi. Tua khit ciangin Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School pana hong pai te’ van-tuamtuam lahna bukneu khatah ka lut leh sangnaupang numeino melhoih pawlkhat in leibeel na bawlbawl uh hi. Keizong sakol-sam leibeel acihte uh thum ka lei hi.

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Ka lei laitakin tua lai-a om nupi khat in ka nasep hong dongh hi. Khantohna center ah ka seplam ka gen leh tua nu in lamdang sakna tawh buk sunga om, a pam-a nupi khat kawkphei veva kawmin, “Hia nu pen i khantohna center director nu ei ve. Tun bel pensen khinta” ci hi. Tua banah Holbrook pen Arizona state ah om hi, hong ci hi. “Tua lai-ah ten theih nading lampi lah om lo a maw” ci in ka ngaihsun hi.

Arizona’ sehnel gam ah teen ding ka geel ngeikei uh hi. Kha 6 hong cingto ta a, Loren tawh thunget ka zomzom lai uh hi. Lawmte khat in Loren pen Tennessee a social work khat ah professor mun awng cih hong gen hi. Tua ahih manin tua lai ah kituah ding ka ngaihsun leuleu uh hi.

Loren in Texas state Antonio khuapi a, 2015 General Conference Ses-sion ah pai dingin khentat hi. Tua lai-ah a om laitakin sakol-sam beelte a kilak ziahzuahna innpi khat mu a, Holbrook Indian School booth ah a tungta ahihlam kiphawk hi. Tua lai-a nupi khatin Loren’ ngawng-a a –awh “LCSW” badge a muh ciangin theipah hi. “Tua laimal pen, ‘Licensed clinical’ a cih nopna ahia?” ci-in dongh hi. Loren in a lu susuk kawmin, “Licensed Clinical Social Worker” acihna hi ci-in dawng hi.

“Tua bang mi khat a kisam hi ve ung” nupinu’n ci hi. Loren in lamdang sakawm, nuihsan kawmin paikhiatsan sawm hi. Ahizongin tua nu in a lawmnu’ nasep zong dotbeh lai hi. Florida Hospital ah khantohna lam semin om hi ci hi. “Tua bang mi khat mah zong, a kisam hi ve ungh” ci leuleu hi. Tua kawmin a gei-a, a pasal (Holbrook a Siapipa hileh kilawm pa) khutvan kawmin sam hi. Tua thuteng Loren in hong nunggen kik hi. “Aw hi maw!” ka ci hi.

Nipikaal bangzah hiam khat khit ciangin Holbrook ah khalsung hun awng khat ciang, va hawh dingin ka khentat uh hi. Ka tun ma un, Southern Adventist University panin sapna lai khat Loren in ngah hi. Nasep pen ngah nai lo hi. Buaina lianpi khat hong omvat hi. Pasian in Ama’ hong sawlsawlna ah ka pai nuam takpi uh hiam, ci-in hong ze-et phot bangin ka ki ngaihsun hi.

Ka nupa un Holbrook siate tawh, American naupangte leh khangnote kianga, Sang’ min tawh nasep vai ding nai 9 sung bang ka kikum khop uh hi. Ka kiho khit uh ciangin tua lai-a khangnote le naupangte’ lungsim gimna, buainate a kikuppih thei ding mi, a panpih thei ding mi a kisap lam uh hong gen uh hi. Tua zanin ka ihmut suak het lo hi. Ahizongin zingsang ka thawh ma in, ka lungsim sungah Holbrook ah nasepzia ding teng hong taai dandan hi.

Lupna tungpan diang khia-in, ka laibu tau tung-a laibu khat ka man hi. Ka nungpuak ip sung sawksukin General Conference Session lai-a ka pasal laibu ngah ka dok khia hi. Tua laibu min pen, “Follow: Anytime, Anywhere, at Any Cost” “Bang hun, Bang mun, Bangzah takin Haksa taleh: Zui in” cih hi-a,

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Sakhile: Biakinn khat kisam ung. Ei inn bangin i neih theih ding omlo ahih manin na khat peuhpeuh kipat khiatna lemthei pha kei. A beisa kum tampi lai-a Iqaluit ka zin masak lai in, kikhop nadingin a ki-ap inn khat ah inn neilote an ka vak ngei uh hi. Sabbath ni in an ka huan loh uh hangin, tua inn neilo, mizawngte in Sabbath ni in tua bangin kivak cih thei ahih manun hong paizel uh hi. Tu-a ka kawm uh pen tua zahin gol lo ahih manin mun kicing zolo hi. Tua ahih manin ka lengla khan sunguh ka zangh uh hi. Naupang neupente mi’ innkhaan khat sungah ka kahsak uh hi. Uhamte pen biakinn dingin ka kawmtawm uh inn sungah kah uh hi. Tua bangin a tu-amtuamah kikhen loin munkhatah kikhawm khawmthei hile-ung bangzah takin nuam ding, cih ka ngaihsut ciangin ngaklah mahmah ing.

Tangthu gennu: Canada gam tawng khat-a Nunavut huh nad-ingin nong phawk manun lungdam mahmah hi. Tu kuata Sabbath 13na i sumpi khenkhat tawh Nunavut ah biakinn thak khat i lamhuh ding hi. Tua dingin phal takin nong piakkhiat manun lungdam mahmah hi.

By Patience Chimhanda

9. Gas Zuakna ah Vantungmi NAD REFUGEES | Aug. 28

Lamphai Sihavong, 64

U.S. gam Chicago ah Lamphai in a tung le a nuai-a lamlianpite en in a lungmang mahmah hi. A pasal koici zon peuhmah ding, ci-in buai mahmah hi. A mawtaw sungah a tu ciltel naupang li te en kawmin bangcih ding cih theilo hi.

Tua nupate pen ref-ugee in Laos gam panin U.S. a tung ahi uh hi. A tate 6 tawh mawtaw tuangin nasep zongin a zinkhia uh ahi hi. California sung Sacramento panin pai in tai 1,400 bang a

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Sakhile: Ka min Sakhile hi. Nupi khinsa hi-in tapa khat le tanu khat nei ingh. Mi 8000 bang a tenna khua ahi, Nunavut state khuapi Iqaluit ah nurse ka sem hi. A beisa kum khat lai in, Pond Inlet panin hong tung hi ungh.

Tangthu gennu: Nunavut state pen a hamsa mahmah mun hi a, inn le lo neilo tamin gal le sa tamna mun hi. Tua lai ah Adventist te’n bang semthei ding hiam?

Sakhile: Pond Inlet ka tuncil un Jamaica panin Adventist inn-kuan khat na om khin uh hi. Amau’ apiang khit uh ciangin ko innkuan bek Adventist ka om uh a, khua laizang ah ka teng uh hi. Ka pasal in kumpinasep siipeen ah sem a, khuasung buppi ah keibek nurse ka hi hi. Tua bangin semlo hile-ung, tua vengsungah bangmah piang lo dingin ka um hi. Tua ka sepna uh hangin huzaap a neithei ka hi uh hi. Tua in ka teci pan nadinguh haksa sakzaw hi. Mi pawlkhatte in ka gente uh sang nuam mah taleh, amau’ hong muanna a meet ka dok nuam kei uh hi. Amau’ hong muanna tungah ka upna uh tawh kisai-in a meet ka dok nuam kei uh hi. Tua hi-a, kidawm takin ka gamta uh hi. Ahi zongin ka sepkhiatuh khat om hi. Pond Inlet ah numei bawlung club om nailo ahih manin Kum 9-12 kikaal numeite’ bawlung club khat ka phuan uh a, tua in kim le pam huzaap mahmah hi. Khangno numeite lam lakah ngimna nei mel loin mawk vakvak nawnlo ahihna uhamte in muta hi. Numeinote in ngimna nei thei ta uh hi. Soccer club ah kisinding, nek-hawmding, le kilawmtatna nei dingin hongpai uh hi. Club-a zat dingin fund zonzia dingzong ka hilh uh hi. Zuak ding moh bawlbek loin, idea dangkhat zong hong neisak hi. Tua club pen amau’ a bangin ngaihsun thei-in, ko’ om nawnloh ciangin a makaih theih nadingun ka hilh uh hi.

Tua vengah nasep theih nadingin ka sep uh a dang zong om lai a, tua pen ka tate’ lawmte ahi hi. A lawmte un Friday ni le Saturday nite in ka inn-vuah hong kimawl theih nadingun hong ngen uh hi. Tua nite in Sabbath Kikhopna nei ihih manin, naupangte hong pai nadingin ka zol uh hi.

Tangthu gennu: Koi bangin Iqaluit le Pond Inlet i saikak thei tam?

Sakhile: Iqaluit ah Adventist innkuan tampi om a, tua ki-lawmtatna in kha-tha hatsak tuam mahmah hi. Khat veivei pawlpi mite samin inn ah thu ka ngensak zel hi. Tua lai-a om pen lungmuanhuai kasa mahmah hi. Iqaluit ah naupang Sabbath School lesson ka hilh a, uhamte’ tungah a kis-am bangin a huh theih nading uh le itna alah khiat theih nadingun ka hilh hi.

Tangthu gennu: Hilai-Adventist pawlpi ah na sunmangte nong gen thei dia?

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Don Maclafferty’ gelh ahi hi. Tua ka muh phetin, Pasian in Holbrook Indian School ah hong sam taktak hi, ci-in ka kitel hi. Tua lungsim mah Loren’ lung-tang sungah a na guansak nadingin Pasian kiangah ka gen pah hi. Thu ngenin ka ngak hi.

Ni tampi khit ciangin, Florida-a ka inn vuah ka lut phet uh leh Loren in, Holbrook ah pai dingin Pasian in a deihna hong pulaak khia hi. Tua nitakin kithawi pahin ka vante uh ka guang uh hi. Kaal nih khit ciangin hong kicial pah hi. Holbrook ah Pasian zuithei kahih manun ka lungdam mahmah uh hi.

A beisa kum 3 lai-a, Sabbath 13na i mission sumpi tawh Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School ah aki lamthak: Gym le Cidamna Phual-pi nong huh manun lungdam mahmah hi.

By Diana Fish

7. A Lamdang Kilawmtatna MARSHALL ISLANDS | Aug. 14

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Marshall Islands ah missionary semdingin a pai, kum 15 a phapan khangno moi mahmah khatin, a gamla-pi ahi, U.S. gam Texas a om kum 77 apha missionary sem ngei pensen khinsa khat kian-gah kilawmtatna lai khakden hi.

Tua putekpa Bob in, mission news sung-a, khangno missionarypa’ inn-kuan thu a simna tungtawnin a kilawmtatna uh hong kipan hi. Tua khangno mission-arypa’ pa pen sang siapi hi in, a nu’n pen gamlapi-a Ebeye Tuikulh ah Adventist Mission School ah siamah khat ahi hi. Grandpa Bob in tua missionary innkuante’ adingin panpihna khatpeuh nei nuam hi. Sabbath School Mission sumpi ah tampipi a khiat banah, Sabbath 13na sumpi ah zong

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2018 kum sunga sang huh nadingin a valin tampipi khiaden hi. Tua sangin a tamzaw khiatbeh nuam lai hi. Tua hi a, khasimin huhna thohkhat-ta puak den dingin khentat hi. Tua sungah lim tuamtuam, nektheih tuamtuam, le sang vanzatding tuamtuam guangin, tua innkuante’ ading le tua lai-a, missionary dangte’ adingin khak den hi.

A masa penpen vankhak a ngah ni-in Raijan kum 13 pha pan hi. Tua vanthohte a hon ma un, a innkuan un khukdin sukin Pasian’ tungah lungdam a ko masa uh hi. Tua kimawlna vante a zat ma in a pa in, Grandpa Bob kian-gah lungdam kohna lai a khak kikpah phot dingin sawl hi. Tua pen a laikhak tawh kilawmtatna kipatna ahi hi. Grandpa Bob in vante khakkhak in, Raijan in zong khutgelh laikhak tawh lungdam koden hi. Kum 3 sung Raijan in letsong thoh tampitak ngah a, laikhak zong tampitak mah gelh hi. Van-thohpite a ngah manin a lungdamna thu gelh hi. Sangah a haksatnate zong hel zel hi.

Lamet lohpi in a lawmte khat a sihvatna le basketball kimawlsiam Kobe Bryant helicopter accident in asihnate hangin sih ding a lau mahmahna zong a laigelhna sungah hel hi. Tua bangin sihna thu a gelhna lai a khak kik khit a sawt loin Grandpa Bob kiang panin thuhkikna lai khat ngah hi. Tua pen Grandpa Bob kiang panin laikhak a ngah masak pen le a tawpna laikhak ahi hi.

Tua khit kaal 3 khit ciangin Grandpa Bob zato tungin, a sawt loin, a inn ah lum dingin ciah kik hi. Tua bangin kaal 2 sung a lup kawmin Raijan’ innkuan’ adingin van thoh 8 bawl kawmkawm hi. Tua vante pen Grandpa Bob sih khit ciangin a tapa in khaksak hi. Grandpa Bob sihna in Raijan dah-sak mahmah taleh a laikhak gelh zomlai veve hi. A nuai-a laikhak pen Grandpa Bob’ tapa tungah, vante angah khit ciangin a khak laikhak ahi hi.

Dahmahmah ung. Grandpa Bob’ hong nusiatna ka zak uh ciangin, dah lua ungh. Tawmvei sung hong nuntakpih lai dingin ka lamet ngel hi ven. Tu kha kipat lamin ka laikhakna ah, ka lawmte khangno khat le basketball kimawl siam Kobe Bryant sihna tungtawnin sihna pen baih mahmah ahihna ka gelh ngei hi. Kaal khat khit ciangin lai hong thuk kikpah a, mi khat peuh a sih ciangin i dah hangin, i Pasian in tua sihna tungah gualzo khin ahih manin dahluat ding hi lo hi, ci in hong thuk kik hi. Tua banah kum 100 bang nungta dingin i lamet kawmin zing ciangin a si pah ding bangin i kiginkholh den ding ahi, ci in hong hilh hi. Grandpa Bob in ka nuntakna mainawt dingin hong hanthawn hi, tua hikei leh zingcianga na ngah ding hamphatnate na ngah kei ding hong ci hi. Tua banah nisim in mite’ kiangah Pasian’ thu genkhiat ding zong hong hilh hi. Hong thapiakna hangin ka lungdam mah-

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mah hi. Ama’ hong thapiakna laikhak ngah lo hilengin tu-a sangin ka dah zawtham lai ding hi.

Amah tawh mimal in ka kimuh ngeiloh hangin, a migizaw, a gualhuaizaw le itna lungsim a neithei zawdingin hong huzaap mahmah hi. Hih leitungah amah tawh ka kimuh khak nawnloh ding hangin nikhat peu-hpeuh ciang, vantung i tun ciangin mu ning, ci in ka um hi. Bangzah takin naa sading cih kong thei hi, ahizongin Pasian in hong theihpih loh khat zong om lo ahih manin Pasian’ sungah na kihehnem ta un. ci hi.

Kaal sim-a, nong piakkhiat uh mission sumpite hangin lungdam mahmah ungh. Tuate tawh Marshall Tuikulh a nasem missionaryte le leitung bup tuam-a nasemte i huh hi. Tua banah a val in nong puak uh, huhnate hangin zong lungdam sem ungh.

By Andrew McChesney

8. Bawlung, Mehtui, le Pasian NUNAVUT, CANADA | Aug. 21

Sakhile Sibanda Kamera

Mi 2 kihosak in. (Tangthu gennu le Sakhile)

Tangthu gennu: Nunavut pen Canada gambup ah a thakpen, a lianpen, le a khung nung pen state ahi hi. 1999 kumin a kikipsak hi a, a zaimahmah state hi in, mi kikol mahmah in tundra mi-namte teng hi. Mualsang guamthuk lak hi a, pai hak mah-mah in, gunkuang le vanleng bek tawh tualai kipai thei hi. Tua lai-ah Seventh-day Advent-ist tawmcik bek om pan hi. Tu in tualai-a Adventist khat ahi, Sakhile tawh i kimu ding hi. [A lawm kiang lam nga phei kawmin]

Hehpihna tawh nang le nang nong ki meihset phot dia lawm?

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