After saying goodbye to our partnering staff and the incredible refugee families we met along the Syrian border, we set off for Turkey—a neighbor of Syria that is absorbing millions of people who have been uprooted from their homes because of persecution and conflict....
Our second day on the ground in Jordan was even more sobering than the first. The needs here are absolutely overwhelming! Being here is like stumbling on the scene of a mass tragedy. There is chaos, confusion, utter despair—the full scope/range of human misery on...
Today, I’m in Amman, Jordan, working alongside our humanitarian partners amidst one of the most desperate and widespread disasters I have ever witnessed. Our lead field strategist in Jordan is my long-time friend, Isam Ghattas. His cultural awareness has proven...
“Never again!” That was the battle cry heard round the world as a betrayed Rwanda stared bewildered into a shadowy future altered forever by genocide. “Never again,” we vowed after more than 800,000 Rwandans were butchered. “Never again,” we said to the families left...
“I stayed up until 5 a.m. this morning working on tonight’s message,” Campus Pastor Johnnie Moore told Liberty students last Wednesday night. “I had planned on speaking about how to handle the problems you are facing at this moment, but instead, I am going to talk...
Outside the cement-block shack, two children—a boy and girl with dark hair and freckles—run barefoot, avoiding the sharp rocks as best as they can. Their bodies are in perpetual motion because the ground is too cold to stand in one place for too long. They jump and...