MEE Mission Coworker Stories Archives - Page 8 of 11

Drawing on Faith

I was 13 when the Nakba began. Afterwards, some of the Palestinian Christians we knew were...

“Many peoples shall come and say,‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the...

You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you,...

The First Demolition Site Today was a beautiful, blue sky summer day. My teammates...

Freshly painted playgroundat the Nabil Samwil School “Algebra”, he said “is...

Five years after retiring to California from our appointed work in Turkey, we unexpectedly received...

John 6:5-15The following message was delivered at the Near East School of Theology's 85th...

Thirst. Have you ever been really thirsty? Have you been so thirsty you thought you would faint or...

Deuteronomy 30:19-20Matthew 5: 1-12In 1946 Sargent Paul McGrail landed on the Normandy Coast along...

Yesterday morning, after we told an acquaintance here that we had left the United States to live...

Mark 7:24-30 I am not interested in picking up the crumbs of compassion from the tablefrom someone...

Despite uncommonly cold temperatures that penetrate to the bones in these stone buildings,...

I struggle with the “M” word. I have been uncomfortable with the words “mission” and...

Many of you saw me this summer back in the States, but may not know that I’ve switched continents...

It felt more like a homecoming than a new arrival as we stepped out of the Beirut airport’s...