Back overseas again.

C&P in Switzerland last September

For those of you who know us quite well, you might remember we returned to the US in December 2011 from South Africa. You might even have heard us say that our plans were to be in the US for 3-5 years. It has been a bit longer than what we predicted but we have finally made our way back overseas. It started back in September last year when we were invited to participate in an orientation course with Medair. Medair.org is a Swiss humanitarian aid organization. We have been very impressed with their values and their emphasis on serving the forgotten. This aligns well with the emphasis we always have had in ministry: serving the least served. Check them out!

In July we started a one year assignment in Bangladesh in order to be a part of the humanitarian aid response to the Rohingya crisis which has unfolded acutely over the last year in Myanmar - and now in Bangladesh. There are now around 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fleeing violence that is now most often being qualified as ethnic cleansing. Here is a story of one refugee: http://www.medair.org/en/stories/bangladesh-lost-together/.

Christine is returning to her calling of working with malnourished children and mothers, and Phil is doing logistics. We are thrilled to be part of an organization that is seeking to bring our professional, practical and management skills as an expression of God's love to the most vulnerable.

You may have actually seen Bangladesh on the international news. There have been student protests over the dangerous nature of Bangladeshi roads, provoked by two students that were killed by a bus. This is happening in Dhaka, which is very far from Cox's Bazar where our base is. But please be in prayer for this situation, that it would remain peaceful. We pray that this will provoke some much-needed change in driver conduct!

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Will you join us in prayer for the Rohingya people? A state-less people. A people who has suffered unspeakable violence. The forgotten.