10/28/2026
There are over 40 languages spoken at Five Loaves Food Pantry. Brother Tim has learned some phrases in all of them.
“I learned how to say 'good morning,' 'good afternoon,' and 'thank you' in Arabic. Well, I shared this story at our synod, and I said, 'Ok, we’ve got 'Sabah al-khair,' 'Sabah Achnun,' and 'Shukran Abuna.'
Afterwards, one of the military chaplain officers came up to me and asked, ‘Are they really saying that to you?’ So of course I'm like, 'yeah, ‘Good morning,’ ‘good afternoon,’ and ‘thank you.’
He says, ‘Well, the first two, you got it right, but that third one, are they really saying that to you? Because it doesn’t mean what you think it means.’”
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