Our Stories

Stretching the Tent Pegs

This weeks update is quite short as we are busy extending “enlarging the site of our tent, lengthening our cords and strengthening our...

The I19 Prescription

I looked around our campus which was buzzing once again with close to three hundred people queuing up for appointments with our visiting...

The Week of October 16th

It’s been a super busy week with many guests including a wonderful team of doctors from Egypt who treated almost 500 patients in our...

Your Story

Nawaf is 34. He came from the Yezidi village of Kanya Eido in Sinjar. He lives in Shariya Camp, now in a block house that we built for...

The Greatest Dream

Our Tribe celebrated the International Day of Peace last week. For kids whose lives were torn asunder by war, hate, and evil, Peace is an...

Marked by Joy

As the Hebraic year 5782 comes to a close, I have been looking back over our year. It has not been “my” year, it is our year, the year...

The 21st Piece of Cake

All day every day for the past three weeks there has been a steady flow coming inside our blue gates. By Thursday morning there were...

Administering Justice

“And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved.” 1 Samuel 30.6...

Building Hope

On August 3rd, we walked through the Gate of New Beginnings. On August 14 we began Building Hope, the construction of block homes inside...

Gates

“Throughout all their journeys, wherever the cloud lifted, they would set out but if the cloud did not lift, they would not set out -...

Pin Pricks

As the book of Ecclesiastes says, this week has been a time to gather stones together. Stones of remembrance. As we position ourselves to...

Ending Strong

I was not planning to write this week as we are in the midst of the prep for the August 3rd memorial but after an amazing picnic...