Refugees Archives - Cindy DeBoer

The Pond Scum Exchange (Why voting matters less than you think)

Cindy DeBoer — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:32:35 +0000

When we bought our sucky crack-house we thought the fantastic view of the zoo/park across the street might possibly redeem the pitiful structure. However, the park struggles financially and some things have become a bit of an eyesore. All summer long our park pond has looked like this: Our neighborhood Facebook group recently debated the […]

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A Hiding Place (When the next Holocaust comes, you can come live with me)

Cindy DeBoer — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:38:52 +0000

Upstairs, on the third floor of our former crack home, awaits a really big and really empty, comfortably furnished attic apartment. Now that we are empty nesters, we’re deciding how best to use it. An exchange student? A foster child? Airbnb? Perhaps. But because our pastor mentioned the Holocaust this past Sunday and because these […]

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Let’s stay woke for World Refugees

Cindy DeBoer — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:56:12 +0000

At first, he didn’t speak up, but I could tell he was listening in on my dilemma. I was trying to explain to a young Syrian mom how to administer the antibiotic to her sick child. My translator, a sweet Egyptian girl, was having trouble understanding my English and the Syrian mom was having trouble […]

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Jesus Ain't Your Sexy Valentine

Cindy DeBoer — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:41:20 +0000

Clean water crisis. Human-Trafficking. Immigration. Orphan care. Affordable Housing. Failing Education Systems. Gun Violence. Teen-age pregnancy. Sitting in this hip coffee shop I can hear twenty-somethings all around me talking about what’s wrong with humanity and how they aim to fix it. Millennials are raising the bar for the rest of us. They’re hyper-aware of […]

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A View Into the Syrian Refugee Camps

Cindy DeBoer — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:00:09 +0000

Is it time? Can I finally share about my experience in the Syrian refugee camps? I’ve patiently waited until the repugnant things surrounding our country’s midterm elections were over. But I was getting impatient… People are literally dying as the richest and most powerful country in the world spends millions of dollars on campaigning and […]

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