Category: BLOG
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Border Stories … the questions in a crisis
the questions we ask in a crisis Source: Border Stories … the questions in a crisis
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Questions you might be asking about the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Maybe no one imagined that the Middle East would come like this. Nobody dreamed of babies being born at borders or toddlers walking kilometers or tens of thousands of families sleeping in the open air. Who could have looked at that Hungarian barbed-wire fence and foreseen a heaving flow of people from Syria, from Iran, from Eritrea,…
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thoughts from the border
This post will be short because I am exhausted, but I just have to write. I just have to tell the story. I simply am not sure which story to tell. I could tell you that at the catching point, which is Roszke on the Hungarian / Serbian border today, I was overwhelmed by the…
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from Keleti in Budapest – a story of power
Power. Standing in the middle of a swell of humanity in the Keleti station, I was keenly aware of my power. As a woman. As a western woman. As a westerner. On that day, I came to Keleti train station in the midst of what some historians are calling the biggest Refugee Crisis in Europe…
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the world waits in budapest’s keleti train station
In Syria, we are looking for a place where we won’t die.
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girl problems
When you are a missionary at Kidz Camp on the Southwest Ohio District, you hear a lot of funny stuff. My favorite quote this week came from a little dude who was probably 8. We found him sitting, slouched over with a grumpy face by a light pole. I thought his world had come to…
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becoming American again
It is early on this mid-week morning and I watch the rain falling on the edge of Indy. We are back together again as a family after the long journey home. Jet lag is almost a memory. As we settle into new summer rythms for a family on the road, cultural re-engagement is top on…
teanna sunberg 