Dear Perspective, it’s time to hit ‘reset’
Insomnia is a delightful souvenir I never expected to bring back from Kenya. It visited me again last week. As I wrestled with gritty eyes and a bad attitude at […]
Insomnia is a delightful souvenir I never expected to bring back from Kenya. It visited me again last week. As I wrestled with gritty eyes and a bad attitude at […]
Dikem will never forget the first letter he ever received: his acceptance to Sudan Interior Church Secondary School. “It was wonderful,” he recalled. Never mind the tough, eight-hour hike from […]
The question hangs in the air for an instant. “This is a long story,” Hellene Rajak said in her soft voice. “Yabus is not the first time I would experience […]
They walked dozens of miles through rocks, brush, thistles, rivers and swamps. For some, their only defenses were worn-out shoes, ragged flip-flops or just strips of animal hide. Some wore […]
Just days into 2013, South Sudan is on my heart and mind. What will this year hold for the world’s youngest country? What does the future look like for the […]
A bucket filled with river water sits under the baobab tree, surrounded by men, women and children from the village of Guffa. Brown and opaque with sediment, it represents their […]
Abebe and Abebech Langena have a simple philosophy about missions: Take time. Make friends. Be friends. Abebe leans forward intently, his passion clear. “It takes time to change the mind […]
Abdarhim, 11, sits quietly, his slim, lanky frame draped over the examining table. A wound in his foot from a thorn had developed a fungal infection; the refugee camp clinic […]
Selected for international publication in SIM magazines/newsletters worldwide. The pain in Tiya’s eyes is that of a mother who knows what it’s like to flee war, not only to save […]
This is what it looks like when someone in the village needs to put a tarp over their roof before the next rain comes. Everyone chips in. No questions asked. […]