We will be returning to the USA for the end of our first term in June. We’ll be staying there through August. While there, we’ll be...

My friends, the season of Lent is upon us. And with it comes a general repentance among most Christian denominations. Indeed, today is...

I realize it’s easy for me to speak negatively about the churches I grew up in. After all, there are many, many problems in the way that...

Loving our neighbors at Orthodox Christmas!

It is Christmas Eve. I sit at the dining room table, surrounded by people from four different countries who are communicating with each...

Merry Christmas, my friends. We enter the Christmas season with an expectation. It’s an expectant waiting for the Son of God to make his...

I saw a beautiful display of solidarity today. I can’t share too many of the details, but a woman who came to stay at the Maria Skobtsova...

Recently I received a video of an Iranian woman being baptised. She was at the Maria Skobtsova House (MSH) for several months at the end...

A Train and the Hunt for Coffee The night train rolls into the station in Vienna. It looks like one of those trains you always see in...

Rachel and I were celebrating our anniversary, our 11th to be exact. We planned to do the things we usually do, what we have done since...

Are you interested in living and working together with displaced people? Is your heart touched by the suffering of others? Do you ever...

The Fourth of July holiday is upon us. It may seem strange that I, a Mennonite, am talking about this. After all, Mennonites are not well...

600 people drowned. Consider that figure for a moment. Officially 78 people are dead and 500 people are missing, but after a week, it's...

I went to a funeral today. It was a funeral for a young Somali man who tragically perished when struck by a semi truck on the motorway...

Easter is tomorrow. I thought it would be a good opportunity to share an Easter reflection based on some recent events at the Maria...

Every day at the Maria Skobtsova House (MSH), there are any number of possible things that can happen. Sometimes nothing happens. It’s...

“I just want to say thank you,” the man tells us as we eat dinner around our shared table. “Thank you is not enough, but it’s all I can...

The message on my phone asked, "Would you be able to drive to a farm about 20 minutes away and help us get some potatoes?" It was our...

Hey, everyone! I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve started to write a few things, but they’ve never really...

Hello, my dear friends! I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything here. Life is crazy when you work with people who don’t know...