Kas just arrived in her new home country a little over a year ago. Her husband had been in this country for the past several years, trying to earn enough money to get his wife and their 13-year-old …
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Choosing Compassion
"If you want my advice, we need to find people who won't break so easily," my Muslim Rohingya friend and colleague shared with me. We recently discovered that another Rohingya colleague had betrayed …
God is Not Stingy
"Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong & mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! Who is this …
Have Mercy on Me!
Sol fled to Malaysia several years ago to escape violence and to prepare a home for his wife and son to join him. A few months ago, he had saved enough money to pay for their passage to Malaysia and …
Actions & Truth
“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 One day, during the Covid pandemic, I was in the garden when a Rohingya man stopped at the front …
A Mother’s Dream
Sitting on the floor, we watched as her daughters, age 3 and age 4, traced and colored in preschool workbooks. My visit with Aishya was similar to my other visits: we sat on the floor, the …