Summer 2024 Video & Needs

As many of you know, we’re currently in the fundraising process for our ministry as our team of therapists and staff relocate. Would you take 10 minutes to watch the video below and consider joining us in this incredible work?

WHAT IS IT WE DO EXACTLY?

Hear from us – and from an international church pastor who’s worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Turkey about the impact our counseling ministry is having – and learn more about our need here.

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Between Worlds

We’ve been in the states for a few weeks now reconnecting with family, participating in wedding festivites for a family member, meeting some of you (in groups and individually), and have already been sharing at a number of presentations!

It’s been a full time so far and so good overall, but also a bit surreal as we get weekly messages from our team as they pack up the office / homes ahead of us and scatter for the summer to their own home areas. Connecting with people here, coordinating zoom calls spread across several time zones about new visa unknowns, and trying to fundraise and plan for this next season, it does at times feel as though our life is stretched between worlds.

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SAVE THE DATE: Aug 8

We are coming to the States for a brief (and very busy!) month in August and would love to see you! Our main chance to catch up with you will be at our Safe Haven event:

Tuesday, August 8, 7:00 pm

AC Fellowship Hall, Bluffton, IN

Join us to:

  • hear stories of healing from our counseling work & ministry
  • get personal updates on life in the Middle East and the political / visa climate
  • sample ethnic foods

We hope it’ll be an encouraging night for you all! Please consider taking time to come hear what God’s doing around the world.

God is a Good Father

Nick, LMHC originally wrote this for the counseling center

The book of Jeremiah presents to us the voice of a grieving prophet having lived through a transition from the relatively stable nation of Israel under King Josiah through its utter destruction. We can hear the echoes of the despairing and bereft within his text, but he also provides us with a voice that we so often need in life: the voice of a good parent.

Jeremiah 30-31, the so-called Book of Consolation, speaks to an alienated people, living out the insecurity of a refugee life, hopes lost in foreign lands and weighed down under the rule of foreign gods. How could people whose home has been taken away find home again? Baruch writes of a divine command to the people that they call out to the Lord and follows it up immediately with God’s response:

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A YEAR APART

One year ago in October, we got to be a part of a really amazing day. Over 200 people helped pull together an EPIC global fair for some cross-cultural workers our community supports. We estimated that over 1,800 people came through that day and got a taste, just for a moment, of their world. It was an incredibly humbling event to be a part of – and see how He was working both in those who lived abroad those who supported from our community.

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