'I Did Not Know How to Go Down an Elevator'

A new video from Richfield-based World Relief Minnesota features several refugees telling about life in their homelands and how the organization helped them make the transition to living the United States.

World Relief Minnesota, located in the Minnesota Evangelical Center building, along with three other nonprofit organizations, helps resettle refugees and transform them economically, socially and spiritually. It offers citizenship and ESL classes, employment services, resettlement and legal services.

This is how the organization describes itself at the YouTube posting of this video:

world relief MINNESOTA is ...

• a Christian non-profit agency dedicated to the Cause of the Refugee
• empowering local churches to serve the most vulnerable, i.e., newly arrived refugees
• refugees, staff, members of faith communities, and volunteers learning to see Jesus reflected in the faces of each other
• stories that need telling—stories of men, women, and children surviving adversity and now as strangers making their home in the U.S.
• an Affiliate Ministry (subsidiary corporation) of Transform Minnesota, and an affiliate of the World Relief Corporation (WR), an international humanitarian agency headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

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