Posts tagged with: refugees
Fences of Fear
Fences are incredibly common in Hungary. Nearly every house has a fence with a well secured gate around it. Here fences are used to keep some people in and other people out. In the past 2 months, I’ve seen two fences...
Sharing Hope Through Hospitality
Over the last couple of weeks, I have thought about a class that my wife, Kristen, and I took together at seminary called The Ministry of Hospitality. One of my former graduate professors, Dr. Christine Pohl, shares in one of her writings:...
Refugees Seek Their Own “Promised Land”
I’ve heard it said that the job of a missionary is one of the most unpredictable jobs. The truth is I am blessed with the flexibility to be the hands and feet of Jesus whenever and wherever. Over the past...
Home for the Desperate
We drove through cornfields and Hungarian countryside for barely a kilometer before we started seeing the clusters of people walking toward bus stops and train stations. They were recognizable by their dirty, disheveled appearances, their small packs and their weary...
The least of these: Ministering to Refugees in Hungary
I saw her through the open flap of the tent. A young mom (the photo above is of another young mother and her son) in her 20s, a floral shawl wrapped around her head, exposing only her face. She was dressing...
