World Refugee Day: A day to prevent more panicked phone calls like this
Ring … ring. Our partner along the Syrian border picked up the phone. He had been receiving so many phone calls lately, calls from refugees who were out of work because of the pandemic and were asking for food. This time it was an older woman on the other end of the...
There’s no place like home
In the “Wizard of Oz,” young Dorothy is stranded in a land far from her home in Kansas. Over the course of the story, she realizes how wonderful her home is, and she longs desperately to return. In the end, all she has to do is click together the heels of her magical,...
World Refugee Day: why you should care
Right now, families around the world are running for their lives. Right now, people are leaving behind careers, homes, and loved ones just to survive. Right now, children are sitting in crowded camps wondering when they will eat again. We are facing the greatest...
Be a good neighbor this World Refugee Day
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’ — Luke 10:29 (NIV) This is the question that prompts Jesus to tell the parable of the Good Samaritan. In the parable, Jesus delivers a clear message: It isn’t about who is or who isn’t your...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.