So…living as a refugee. There’s so much to process and so little I can tell you as not to ruin any ‘surprises’ for future students of the amazing Contemporary World Missions class. I just want to say up front that the experience is amazing and anyone who wants to be a 3rd world missionary should somehow experience the life of a refugee.

To maintain the mindset of someone with no current hope and no sight of future hope is something hard to grasp. As a student on a three day trip you have to pretend you don’t see an end in sight and live like you not only have to fight to survive today, but for every single day after that.

How do you minister to someone who truly doesn’t understand joy or hope? How to you connect with someone who knows that nobody can be trusted? So often, as Christians we attack people with our faith trying to save them spiritually without recognizing their need for physical salvation as well.

This is a little something called Holistic Ministry that I will probably be talking about in the future around here.