[Dialogue] refugees

[A.M. Noel]

Awesome work Jack, Louise and Chris
A.M. Noel


On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 8:15 PM John Ballard via Dialogue <
dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> We can add our voices to the resettlement project of Afghans evacuees.  So
> far our church and others in our community have gathered enough for four
> families.  So far we have resettled 21 people in three homes.  The Afghan
> families in our area seem to be large.  Chris, our son, helped with his
> church’s resettlement of a family in December.  It is a lot of hard work
> but such a pleasant reward to see a home set up for a family had has lived
> on a military base for months and then for months in hotels after fleeing
> their homes.  We are the ones who receive the blessing.  We women have
> joked that it is a bit like having a baby.  So much struggle, pain and work
> at the birthing that you say, “never again will I have a baby”.  Then a
> couple days later you look at your newborn and see the miracle of a
> precious life and you forget the pain.  We plan to resettle at least one
> more family.  So many, many people have been generous in giving of goods
> and money to help these displaced folks.
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> In the Baltimore area, we understand that about 500 people have been
> resettled so far but more than a thousand are still waiting to be
> resettled.
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> Love to all,
>
> Louise and Jack
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> *From:* Dialogue <dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> *On Behalf Of *Ann
> Ensinger Ensinger via Dialogue
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 16, 2022 4:38 PM
> *To:* Jo Nelson via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Cc:* Ann Ensinger Ensinger <ann.ensinger at yahoo.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Dialogue] refugees
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> Thank you for the update, Jo. God bless you for your caring spirit and
> practical, concrete love.
>
> Ann
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> On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 02:27:47 PM MDT, Jo Nelson via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Thank you for all your work and care for this community, Tim.
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> And thank you for your story of refugee support.
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> I also have had the privilege of supporting an Afghan refugee family, the
> family of a young woman I have been mentoring for 12 years, beginning when
> she was studying in Afghanistan.  She has been in the US for 8 years now.
> They are an amazing family. Two sons and five daughters have all been
> educated, most with university degrees.
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> Her oldest brother, along with his (pregnant) wife and children and his
> parents, escaped from Afghanistan in August the day after the Kabul airport
> bombing, and were bounced from one place to another for 3 months.  They
> decided to come to Canada where the youngest son had made a refugee claim,
> but they had no other contacts here.  I made a commitment to provide part
> of their support for the first year, as I feel that they are extended
> family. When they couldn’t find rental housing, one of our deep colleagues
> here (I think he would be embarrassed if I said his name) bought a house to
> rent to them at cost, and they moved in on December 22.
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> Some of our colleagues on this list have contributed as well, when I first
> told the story on Facebook.  And many of my neighbours and friends have
> also contributed many household goods, baby things, and money.
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> The baby was born on January 9, with a house in a safe country to grow up
> in.
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> The whole story has brought hope and  joy, something we need in these
> times!  I have been in a state of profound gratitude since then, for being
> able to help and for the generous contributions of so many.
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> If you’d like the full story (sans specific names and places for safety),
> it is on my blog at jofacilitator.ca
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> Take care,
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> Jo
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> On Mar 16, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Timothy Wegner via Dialogue <
> dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> [First a response about the list gmail problems.
>
> Wes, there's no debate that this is (was) a gmail problem - gmail
> suddenly became more fussy, and messages from the list to gmail
> addresses started to bounce. I reported this to Dreamhost, who was
> extremely responsive and made changes to my lists.wedgeblade.net
> subdomain that might fix the problem. It's only been 24 hours, too
> early to say.
>
> Even though of necessity I raised this gmail problem on both lists, I
> suggest unless there is something new, we return to discussion that is
> more on topic, and not continue the "gmail problem" discussion here. I
> would like to see more traffic (hopefully on topic, not about gmail),
> because more list posts will help me to see more quickly whether or
> not the problem is resolved. If you want to discuss gmail more, feel
> free to email me privately. I do feel a bit bad for all the emails the
> list sent out to people saying their accounts had been suspended. In
> these trying times we don't need another aggravation! ]
>
> (back on topic ...)
>
> I have found that the Ukraine news has been causing me to reminisce
> about my own travels. Just before Susan and I joined the order we
> travelled by local transportation through Afghanistan, then in a brief
> lull between wars. Now that I think of it, we continued through Iran!
> The year was 1971.
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> We went out to dinner with some neighbors a few nights ago to a
> Houston restaurant called the Afghan Village. The food was amazing,
> and I would say 90% of the other diners were Afghans.
>
> Susan is working on a program through our church to help out refugee
> families. Among other things we are collecting donations to outfit an
> apartment. We don't know yet what the nationality of the family will
> be. There are thousands of Afghan refugees headed to Houston, and
> other nationalities as well.
>
> Tim
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