By Laura Foushee For over six hours, we sat on picnic blankets and wandered around a large park outside of the city as our children hunted for insects and frogs,…
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By CBF field personnel Kirk I had my plan. Pack the night before. Load the car at 6. Begin the 10-hour drive north at 11. The plan worked—for a few hours. At…
By Michelle Norman, CBF field personnel It was a particularly warm June evening as our team gathered for the inauguration of Espai Arrels (“Place of Roots”). Surrounded by concrete in…
By Casey Ramirez, CBF field personnel Have you ever made 400 dumplings? I’m guessing you haven’t. I hadn’t either, until this year’s Chinese New Year (春节 – Spring Festival). We…
By Rick Burnette, CBF field personnel What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his…
By Scarlette Jasper, CBF field personnel Over the past year, I have been continually reminded that disaster relief is far more than responding to an emergency—it is a ministry of…
By Jonathan Bailey, CBF field personnel On the evening of 25 June, the museum gardens in Batubulan filled with the sound of gamelan and the quieter sound of people leaning in to…
By Christine, CBF field personnel “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” —Ecclesiastes 3:1 I’ve come back to Ecclesiastes over and over again in recent days. Reminded that…
By Jeff Lee, CBF field personnel When people talk about changing lives, they often picture grand gestures—massive donations, big events or sweeping policies. But sometimes, change begins with something small…
By Shelah Acker *Oliver is a refugee from the DRC. He is also an employee at Refuge and Hope. Oliver has had a life full of difficult challenges. He is…