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The War Cry | NOVEMBER 2014
Buffalo actually immigrated in two
waves--the first in January 2013
and the second later in September.
"They wanted to find a Salvation
Army corps to attend, so they went
first to the Buffalo Citadel Corps,
which is actually Hispanic," Major
Celestin says. "They were told that
while they were welcomed there,
there was another corps in Buffalo
where the corps officer spoke French
and was coincidentally Congolese
himself."
That's when they showed up at
the Tonawanda Corps.
The English�speaking congrega-
tion has taken in their new com-
rades as family. And they share
the enormous concern for friends
and relatives left behind in the
refugee camps. For those people,
prospects for immigration are bleak.
Major Celestin has been helping
his newest soldiers become accli-
mated into the American culture.
The Buffalo ARC helped with a
grant for clothes and furniture
and the corps people pitch in
wherever they are needed.
"I've been helping them with their
banking, credit cards, drivers
licenses, employment and docu-
ments," Major Celestin says.
The next thing on their
agenda is to become naturalized
American citizens.
"I thank God for placing me
here at this time because many
things these comrades have
done so quickly would not be
possible without God's provi-
dence," he says.
The major points out that his
soldiers proudly wear their uni-
forms, pay their tithes, play their
brass instruments and love to
participate in parades of witness
throughout the community.
"We are very happy to come to
worship every Sunday here and to
be a part of a program," one of the
men said through the interpreter.
"We feel the love we've received
here, and we give God the glory for
His grace, which brought us here!"
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