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'Everybody is my brother or sister': Former pastor Bud Christenson helps refugees, inmates
- Hana Muslic
- Jan 18, 2018
- Jan 18, 2018 Updated Oct 11, 2018
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Former pastor Bud Christenson, who helped formerly incarcerated people through his nonprofit Bridges to Hope, died May 9. Christenson is seen here in 2018 at the thrift store named in his honor, "Bud's Thrift Shoppe."
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In this undated photo, Bud Christenson is shown with his wife, Muriel, and Amila Tanovic-Muslic, who are holding the refugee family's twin daughters.
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In 1996, Haris Tanovic, a Bosnian Muslim refugee from Sarajevo, played basketball with Pastor Bud Christenson in a church gym in Lincoln.
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Former pastor Bud Christenson, who helped formerly incarcerated people through his nonprofit Bridges to Hope, died May 9. Christenson is seen here in 2018 at the thrift store named in his honor, "Bud's Thrift Shoppe."
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In this undated photo, Bud Christenson is shown with his wife, Muriel, and Amila Tanovic-Muslic, who are holding the refugee family's twin daughters.
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