Global Ministries

There Is The Alternative: Humanitarian Corridors, by Francesco Piobbichi

Beirut, Lebanon (NEV), June 15th, 2016 - I left Lampedusa - in my mind the two women suffering burns caused by petrol. They were holding hands to remain strong inside an ambulance at Molo Favarolo. I left Lampedusa and I had still in my mind those who had just landed the boats of Capitaneria di Porto kissing the ground and thanking God. The two burned women, wrapped in white sheets and half-naked arrived first, then the other migrants, hundreds of them, all wearing the blue overalls of the tanker vessels that had saved them. Read more...

Sometimes we question whether we really are in the center of God’s will for us. One such time was in 1997 in India.

“You don’t know the first thing about tomorrow. You’re nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. . . . Make it a habit to say: “If the Master wills it and we’re still alive, we’ll do this or that.” James 4:14-15 (MSG)

Advent Greetings from Poland – “Love”! In Poland, Protestant youth sometimes greet each other with a fist bump and a shimmer. The shimmer requires you to kind of sparkle in the air with your open hand after the bump while you're pulling your arm back.

Greetings in this time of Advent waiting in hope – that warm green space where we are to pitch our tents.

“I’m glad from the inside out - ecstatic; I’ve pitched my tent in the land of hope. . . . You’ve got my feet on the life-path, with your face shining sun-joy all around.” (Acts 2: 26-28 Peterson translation, “The Message.”

“Brno Blokuje” (which means Brno resists) brought out close to 2,000 people of goodwill to oppose the ideology of exclusion that had summoned about 300 neo-Nazis to march through the Roma ghetto in Brno on May 1, 2011.

This is the last newsletter of our 2008-2011 term in Poland. Our next communications will come from the USA. Tonight, May 7, we are in transition, inhabiting the space “in between.”

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