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Good Stewardship: The Stats, The Need & A Chance to DOUBLE your Impact

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025Leave a comment

“Our time in counseling with you was holistic, balanced, careful, and encompassed our entire family… your willingness to enter our family’s trauma and provide care was an answer to our deepest prayers.” – Client serving in a closed country

Your investment in the health of cross-cultural workers is making a difference!

Investing in holistic member are – through emotional, spiritual and relational support – is both compassionate stewardship and the key to lasting sustainability, helping cross-cultural workers and their families be resilient and effective in ministry. We want every year of preparation and every ounce of sacrifice to lead to lasting impact and healthy, thriving workers fulfilling their calling overseas.

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The Long Transition

March 22, 2025Leave a comment

This last season has been a long transition in location. Here’s a timeline that shows a bit more of what it takes to move an entire organization and several families / teammates to a new country.

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Summer 2024 Video & Needs

June 25, 2024June 25, 2024Leave a comment

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

June 6, 2024Leave a comment

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: IN & IL

May 20, 2024Leave a comment

We’re in the States and would love to see you!

INDIANA

June 11 @ 7pm at the Bluffton AC Fellowship Hall

Nick & Amber will share new stories about the pastoral & clinical counseling work they are doing in the Middle East and their upcoming move to Budapest, Hungary! You’ll also get to hear from their international church pastor and his wife, who have been deeply involved in the counseling work with them! They bring a lifetime of harrowing stories from their work in the Middle East – and know all too well the need for intensive counseling for workers – particularly in this part of the world.

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BIG CHANGES

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024Leave a comment

For 3.5 years now we have lived and worked alongside an incredible team of counselors in a richly diverse and beautiful country in the Middle East. We have fallen in love with it in so many ways, poured our heart and soul into making friends, learning the language, and navigating life in a new culture – in addition to serving the expat community. It hasn’t been easy, but we’ve thrived in many ways in this place. We are SO grateful.

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A Year In Review

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023Leave a comment

Merry Christmas, friends!

It’s been a whirlwind year for us, nestled in the Middle East with wars to the North, to the South East, massive earthquakes, an overwhelming need for counseling, and a limited staff. We’ve also faced many of our own instabilities with internal government and visa issues. We certainly have felt the weight of the world in some fresh ways this year. And while there is more that we’ll share in the coming weeks about that, we wanted to just reflect on some of the ways we served – both in our community and to cross-cultural workers who are in the trenches in incredibly difficult areas.

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Hard Decisions in Hard Places

November 22, 2023Leave a comment

Israel, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Russia… you’ve heard these countries a lot in the news. What you may not hear are the unique challenges many cross-cultural workers in those countries are facing. Questions abound. Should they pull out? When will it be too late to leave? Should they stay and help their friends? At what cost? Is staying too much for them? For their spouse? For their children? Where do they go next? How can they even begin to deal with their personal struggles when they seem absolutely dwarfed by the mass of needs all around them?

These are just some of the reasons we have a counseling center in this part of the world. When traumas like this happen or the fear and uncertainty take a long-term toll on someone’s mental health, they need an easy-to-access place for care. Nick and our team of counselors work hard to provide life-giving counseling in each of these situations and plenty more.

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Christmas Giveaway

November 13, 2023November 16, 2023Leave a comment

This Christmas season, our team has put together 6 lovely gift baskets full of self-care items to foster gratefulness and connection. These would make terrific Christmas gifts, or be something to enjoy yourself throughout the winter and year to come.

Make a year-end donation of any amount to Safe Haven Travelers by December 9 and you might be selected to receive one of these six baskets!

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When Natural Disasters Strike…

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023Leave a comment

On February 6, a 7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria, quickly followed by a 7.7 earthquake later that same day. In the following days, countless volunteers and workers from around Türkiye and the world would learn of the devastation and try to reach out to help. The death toll currently sits at over 56,000, but will likely continue to increase. Our staff psychologist describes these first weeks as the “heroic” stage of disaster response, a time when many people pushing themselves to their utter limits to try and rescue whoever they can. But as we all recognize, we can’t live in these states forever and relief workers often find themselves feeling disillusioned and hopeless in the months following days.

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