Starting 2020 with a resolution to read more? You’re in good company! Lots of us make plans to add more reading to our schedule in the new year. Reading is so important. It helps us avoid the very narrow talking points that we find in the media, and instead learn to see important issues from…
The phone rang again and again. Faiza kept stopping mid-stitch to answer. I overheard the worried tones and the grief that was apparent even though I couldn’t understand the language being spoken. “There was a bombing in my hometown today,” she told me. “People injured, scared, killed. I’m trying to find out if all of…
CONGRATS to our winner, Beverly! She got the right answer – Bukavu City in the DRC. It’s right on the border of Rwanda & Congo. Our next “Where in the World” feature will go live on December 5th. Do you have the stuff to make a world traveler? Time to find out… Recently I was…
She didn’t have to be here. Hilly country. Dense jungles. Long trails. But she was called. For Eh Mhu, life was about more than just her own ambitions or desires. She was a Sunday School teacher, and now, God had called her to a remote place. She was heading to a village of an isolated…
NOTE: This is the first in our series on the brave women we’ve met and been inspired by in the refugee community. Firouzeh* remembers when her husband came home that night. She’d just had their first child. Her husband arrived unexpectedly and rushed back to see the baby. Though it was a girl – and…
Finding time to read, especially if you’ve got little kids in tow, can be a challenge. While we love books around here (find some of our book reviews here), and think it’s important to dig deep into justice issues, we’ve also run into the reality that sometimes there’s just not enough hours in the day!…
I’d had a rough day. I was tired, kids had demanded much of my attention, and then to top it all off, a toilet overflowed, requiring me to cancel a meeting. When a friend messaged me, I told her some of the story, but the whining that I wanted to do just didn’t seem like…
Hurrying through the store after a long day at work a few months ago, friendship was the last thing on my mind. I grabbed milk and a few other necessities and found my way to checkout, eager to get home to my husband and two small children. As I unloaded my cart, I noticed the…
🎥 On #MothersDay watch this adorable video of refugee mother Walaa and her four miracle babies pic.twitter.com/JsGwPBiEVA — UN Refugee Agency (@Refugees) May 13, 2018
When you listen to the stories of what refugees have had to endure, your perspective is fundamentally changed. One of my friends walked for days through the Congo with 5 children in tow, trying to get them to safety. She walked past many dying and dead on the road who hadn’t been able to make…