THANK YOU!! In just the last two days we have raised over $7000 dollars to provide much needed shoes, socks, and warm coats for refugees moving back to their homes in Iraq. Included in that are 207 pairs of shoes for children, 142 pairs of socks, other coats hats and gloves, and lots of undesignated [...]
Food Distribution Today, we cleaned up Victoria Square. We swept, picked out trash from among the bushes and plants and filled up four large bags. A couple of the young Algerian men helped out as they realized how disrespectful it was, culturally, to leave an older woman like Nihad, to sweep up after them. In [...]
I served with a Servant Group International team on a Greek island. Each day we accompanied approximately 1,000 refugees arriving on the northern coast. The refugees arrive on shore wet, hungry, thirsty, exhausted and frequently in shock from the 6-mile journey. Most have been displaced from their homes for at least a month – many [...]
Still processing, but the first thing I want to say is that my team members were amazing! Everyone says mission trips change your life and I can now say that that is true. It wasn't as much helping the refugees, important as that was, but meeting 15 people who are unlike most people [...]
There was a flurry of last minute packing on Saturday morning. Some of our team had already flown out, but emergency blankets and ponchos were added to already full bags. They were weighed, measured, and found within the required limits (after some shuffling). Twenty bags in all were packed with supplies for our team to [...]
LE_Eithne_Operation_Triton - Irish Navy Pray for protection for refugees as they travel. Pray for separated families to be reunited. Pray that refugees would be welcomed and befriended by Christians in their new countries. Pray for the wars and unrest in the refugees’ home countries to end. Pray for wisdom and compassion for world [...]
By the time the refugees get to Greece, their thin cotton socks have worn out and they have weeks of walking still ahead of them and colder weather on the way. You can help a refugee by sending us a pair of new sturdy wool-blend hiking socks to take to Greece. We need them in all [...]
Martha Brooks is a wife, mom, blogger, and for a season volunteered in our women’s English program. Read more by her over at Savor the Crazy. I was very hesitant to write this post. I know people who are now giving their time, energy, comfort—their very lives, in the middle of the war-torn area of the [...]
