The tiny feet of a growing baby kicked my hand as we prayed with a young mother just south of the Texas border in Reynosa, Mexico. Surrounded by blankets on a concrete floor and the sounds of a refugee village encircling…
Amid all the fear-mongering about a refugee ‘caravan,’ Christians need to mount a crusade
Is Christian America really going to sit silent as our government sends thousands of soldiers to the southern border to deny asylum to refugees?
Doing the obvious
By Colleen Walker Burroughs “How much does it cost to drill a well?” is the most frequently asked question we get at Watering Malawi. The answer, around $6,000, is based on a series of geological variables as well as the…
A lesson in giving from Liberia
By Colleen Walker Burroughs My fifth-grade daughter’s face was wide-eyed with wonder as our carpool drove to school. National Public Radio was reporting on Liberia’s commitment to send $50,000 in aid to Haiti. “Liberia is sending money to Haiti?” she…
Infested with elves, indebted to the New York Times
By Colleen Burroughs I’m not sure when it began or which year my children started coming home asking for an elf. It turns out there is a way to write Santa and request one of his helpers to come spend…