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Burmese Refugees Who Saved a US Church
Reverend Michael Spurlock and refugee Ye Win explain how they rescued a failing church.
In 2008, the All Saints Episcopal church in Smyrna, a small town in a rural part of Tennessee in the United States, was on its last legs. Most of the parishioners had left, and the building was falling apart. But then a group of Karen refugees fleeing the civil war in Myanmar arrived in the community - and the church's fortunes were transformed.
Photo: Ye Win (L) and vicar Michael Spurlock (R)
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