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Dec 28, 2019

A Back Door of Escape

Recently, I have looked back and pondered much about the day that it all began. Where the course of life thrust me onto a journey into a w...

Dec 28, 2019

Fire Extinguisher

Here in our Northern Iraq base, 20,000 Yezidis in our camp alone, (380,000 in the province of Duhok) are heading into their sixth winter ...

Oct 12, 2019

THE LONG AUGUST

As seen in our Newsletter September arrived. Facebook tells me what a wonderful summer it was. Adventures, food, travel, beach, ocean, al...

Jul 21, 2019

Hopefully, Yours

The moment that she walked though our blue gate she tumbled into my arms and we just stood there. Hugging. A long hug with no need for wo...

Jul 13, 2018

The Roof

This morning I began to cry. And with tears tumbling down my face I began to sing. At that point of wounding, there right there where it ...

Jul 5, 2018

To Life - SoH featured on Film

In celebration of Israel’s 70th anniversary, CBN Documentaries presents To Life: How Israeli Volunteers are Changing the World. The Sprin...

Jul 5, 2018

The Secret Garden - Photo update

Our Secret Garden Project continues showing signs of growth and with it, kindness. We will continue on. #Gallery #English

Jan 11, 2018

Dough

" There's a point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit...

Jan 1, 2018

Happy New Year from Kurdistan

You remember the scene from the film Narnia, where Aslan arrives to confront the Witch, and slowly the ice begins to melt, and winter beg...

Dec 27, 2017

Wow! What a Ride!

" Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid...

Dec 27, 2017

Bragging: Vitamin A(ffirmation)

You've heard about our Kids. Our Kids in War City. Simply amazing mostly Syrian children, mixed with some from Mosul...all of whom have e...

Dec 22, 2017

Halfway up a Mountain

There is a tiny 40 family Yezidi camp. Two years ago it was love at first sight and we all adopted each other and have walked close since...

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