Accompany, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, Network, Values, Youth
David kicked off the University of Oxford presentation with this photo. The doctoral researchers responded: Rural poverty. A crumbling village. A young boy. We once looked through that lens, too. But we see with new eyes now. We see through the eyes of two friends,...
Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, SE Asia, Values
It’s Giving Tuesday, a time to advocate and practice radical generosity. Radical generosity is “the concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.” In other words, to love your neighbor as yourself. In the numbing world of...
A Dream, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East
Dear Friends, Beauty out of ashes. Hope out of tragedy. Life out of death. Dream or fantasy? One moment our friend was driving home, and noticed another car drifting into his lane. He swerved. The next moment, an airbag exploded into his face. Smoke and...
A Dream, Accompany, Equip, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, SE Asia
Ever so gingerly, our Arabfriend lowered the paralyzed woman in awheelchair down two long flights ofstairs. Thump. Thump. Thump.. Then after he lifted her into his car, shebegan to weep and weep and weep. Sheconfided that she hadn’t been out of herhome in two...
A Dream, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, SE Asia
“So, how do you change hard places?” asked my new friend. “Oh, we don’t necessarily change them,” I responded, “Our aim is more profound.” “What do you mean? Then, why are you in hard places?” Her curiosity was piqued. I answered, “We believe that lights can shine...
A Dream, Hard Place, Local Visionary, SE Asia, Youth
I woke early, rolled over, glanced at my phone. Coup d’état! My eyes popped wide open. Dignitaries arrested. Internet cut. Airport closed. Banks shuttered. Roads blocked. It was this country’s last straw. After a generation of armed sectarian clashes. And...
