A Dream, Local Visionary, Middle East
The doorbell startled me. We were deep in discussion with Melhem, a Lebanese visionary that Dreams InDeed accompanies. I walked over to open his office door. A small boy with a big bent can under his arm stood before me. He clutched a wooden box stuffed with rags,...
A Dream, Accompany, Equip, Middle East
My mind reeled; my heart recoiled. Why would a mother plead such a tragic prayer? A friend of that mother explained. “Her prayer is not unusual. There are no lifelong options for mentally challenged orphans.” She went on, “Let me share one family’s story. When...
Hard Place, Middle East, Values
I couldn’t help it. I burst into tears. Exactly a year ago in Iraq, our dreamer had shared the cruel facts filtering out. But now was the final blow. Their homes had been ransacked. And occupied by fighters. Their belongings dumped into the street. Two months before...
Accompany, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East
The Desert Within… “Each one of us has a desert inside. An aching emptiness. A dry wasteland.” We sat next to a tent village overcrowded with families taking refuge from genocide. But our homeless Iraqi dreamer wasn’t just describing their agonizing...
Accompany, Equip, Invest, Middle East
Last summer, over 1.4 million Iraqi civilians fled for their lives across the Ninevah plain. They were halted at flash checkpoints. Ordered at gunpoint to drop every possession. To walk on empty handed. “Out of suffering have emergedthe strongest souls;the most...
