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A Generational Love Story
Over the last couple of weeks we have fallen in love and as you know, such matters of falling in love are never planned. As I shared last...
May 24, 20245 min read


Mud and a Mix Kid
Today’s update is one that I will share with vulnerability from my heart. There are many really excellent things going on, which can be...
May 24, 20247 min read


Our Life...
We wanted to encourage you with these beautiful pictures of just a small window of the different ways your partnership is rebuilding...
May 13, 20241 min read


Khero the Warrior Father
Khero is by nature a gate opener, or a gate breaker-down. Of all the Sinjari’s who fled ISIS when they invaded the ancient Yezidi lands...
May 13, 20243 min read


Unconventional Healing
I have many questions. Questions such as this, amongst children and young men and women who have experienced such depths and breadths of...
Apr 23, 20244 min read


An Undying Hope
"An Undying Hope portrays the journey of our Syrian Art Academy students. Students who have faced the loss of loved ones, some of whom...
Apr 23, 20249 min read


Nothing Ever Changes
Everything remains the same. That is the feeling that the village, home to the Christian community at Avzruk gives. Green before Easter....
Apr 15, 20242 min read


The Fire and The Dance
Newroz 2024 was not about fire. The focus on the province of Duhok was on the disastrous floods that swept through homes and tents alike,...
Apr 2, 20248 min read


The Day of Great Gladness
“Go out oh daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on...
Apr 2, 20248 min read


Not All Who Wander
This week I want to wind back to share something of our Valentine’s Day in February. We celebrated within both our Syrian and Yezidi...
Mar 18, 20244 min read
A Well Partner
I find myself in an arid eastern region for the next few weeks. A region where the future possibility of extending our work with our...
Mar 18, 20243 min read


The Birthing of a King
One day in 2019 Daoud walked through our blue gates. That day it was as if the ground shook under our feet, the birds silenced their song...
Mar 13, 20246 min read
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