The most important step we can take to love across borders is to first listen & learn.
It begins here.
In your every day routines. Your hometown. Your conversations. That mundane place God has placed you in. The words you read.
Manifesting God’s call to love the nations begins with you.
What you believe about the refugee & immigrant experience could change lives. And how you choose to work your mission field could save lives.
It’s easy to get bogged down by the amount of misinformation out there. So I created this blog to help you on your journey.
I took the the insight I gained from my refugee friends on the field just down the road from my hometown, and turned them into stories and pieces of advice to help inform and empower you in your own mission to love across borders.
This is your first step to building the colorful, diverse, welcoming communities Jesus dreams of too.
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Lord, help her to see that Your idea of success and hers might look different.
Rejection, on some day and in some way, is going to face you. Don’t worry, it happens to us all. I want you to know now, before that times hits, that your work may be rejected but you are not. In June I committed to submitting a piece to be considered for a women’s devotional, … Continue reading Lord, help her to see that Your idea of success and hers might look different.
Fighting Forward: a book about living fearlessly in the light.
I found Hannah Brencher’s blog when I was a college student with a broken heart. It was as if she was sitting with me and listening carefully; she knew exactly the words to help me heal. I remember reading excerpts from her blog aloud to a friend in our dorm room one night. She looked … Continue reading Fighting Forward: a book about living fearlessly in the light.
My 5 most played songs from last year.
The only way I have made it through the last year is by singing. I’m not a singer, but I love to sing. I think I’ve always been like this. And for a long time, I was oddly embarrassed by it. It wasn’t until I knew Who gave me a voice that I realized why … Continue reading My 5 most played songs from last year.
Not all too long ago, our wonderfully diverse classroom would have been impossible.
I sat staring at the screen. Images of skin tones and crowds of people blurred the page; a courageous, booming voice seemed to fill the silent room where I sat. I had come face to face with these words before, but not like this. They’d never shaken me like this. The sound of him echoing … Continue reading Not all too long ago, our wonderfully diverse classroom would have been impossible.
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