Who We Are Connecting To God Karen Service
From The Jungles Of Burma To The Pews Of Sault Wesleyan
The Sault Wesleyan Church added another service, a service spoken in native Karen language with inspiring traditional Karen music. If you have not had a chance to meet the Karen, we invite you to join us this Sunday to meet some of the warmest, most loving people around. Come for our 11:00am worship service, and stay for a unique Karen service at 12:20pm.
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Who would have thought a year ago that the confines of the Sault Wesleyan Church would be dramatically changing? The journey began over a year ago at our previous location on Easterday Ave when Jim Jacobson, president of Christian Freedom International, shared with our congregation the lives of an ethnic group from the jungles of war-torn Burma. Christian Freedom International had just recently moved their headquarters from the busy life of the suburbs of Washington DC to the small town life that is Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. CFI came to our church to share about the Karen people, their lives, struggles, and victories. With a handful of recently resettled refugees, Jim opened our hearts and minds to these special people. Who knew that while Jim was doing a routine speaking engagement, he was also looking for a church home for him, his family, and a whole new family from South East Asia.
Immediately our church family fell in love with the Karen people and opened our doors and hearts. As time passed more and more Karen refugees had been resettled to Sault Ste. Marie, and our church had a whole new look. Within months forty two refugees were in service worshiping our Lord Jesus with us. Then came Pastor Kwey Htoo, a refugee pastor who ministered to hundreds of refugees in a camp on the Thailand-Burma border. It was then; the Sault Wesleyan Church took off in ministering to not only residents of Sault Ste. Marie and the eastern U.P. but a new family from the jungles of Burma. 
