Our church, Arizona Karen Baptist Church (AKBC), is made up of about 500 Karen refugees from the Burma-Thai border, recently resettled in Phoenix after surviving atrocious persecution by the Myanmar military Junta.

အရံၣ်စိနါကညီဘျၢထံတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ဘၣ်တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်အသးလၢ ပှၤကညီဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲ အဂၤ ၅၀၀ လၢအဟဲသုးအသး လၢကီၢ်ပယီၤဒီးယိၤကီၢ် ကီၢ်ဆၢတဖၣ် ခီဖျိအဘၣ်တၢ်ဆီၣ်ဘံၣ်ဆီၣ်ဘၢအီၤ လၢပယီၤသုးပဒိၣ်တဖၣ်အတၢ်ပၢတၢ်ပြးအဖီလာ်အဃိ လီၤ.

As believers in Jesus Christ, we are a caring church family dedicated to sharing our faith, hope and love with immigrants from Burma who have found freedom in America.

ဒ်ပမ့ၢ်ပှၤစူၢ်က့ၤနာ်က့ၤကစၢ်ခရံၣ်တဖၣ်အသိး, ပမ့ၢ်ခရံၣ်ဖိးဒူၣ်ဖိထၢဖိ လၢအသးအိၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ခီဟ့ၣ်နီၤလီၤ ပတၢ်စူၢ်တၢ်နာ်, ပတၢ်မုၢ်လၢ်, ဒီး ပတၢ်အဲၣ်ဆူ ပှၤဟဲသုးလီၢ်သုးကျဲလၢကီၢ်ပယီၤ ဆူ ကီၢ်အမဲရံကၤ အပူၤလီၤ.