This month we talk with JD and Dylon Thomas from Hillsong United about refugees, life on the road, and their new album, “Wonder.”
News & Stories
Refugees
Voices
World Refugee Day: Moses misses his father
Nearly 10,000 refugee children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents. Meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children who now must wear the shoes of a father for his sisters. Learn how this responsibility weighs on him and how World Vision is helping to look after them.
Change Makers
Game of Thrones actor meets South Sudanese refugees
Liam Cunningham traveled to Uganda in May to see World Vision’s work with the fastest-growing refugee crisis worldwide — South Sudan.
Voices
Facing responsibility: The face of a refugee child
In 2013, World Vision President Rich Stearns met 10-year-old Haya in Jordan. The song she sang to him that day became a pivotal moment in his life: “Do you ever think of the children of Syria?” Hear from Rich about the impact of that moment, and three and a half years later, join us in reconnecting with Haya.
From the Field
Syrian refugee children use art to express pain and loss
In a Child-Friendly Space in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, young Syrian refugees use art to express their feelings of loss and hope.
Change Makers
From Syria to Seattle: When worlds collide
They did not know each other, but simultaneously, their lives were plunging into an abyss. Seattle software programmer Cari Conklin was on a collision course with the Alhamdens, one of the millions of Syrian families caught in the crossfire of Syria’s civil war.
From the Field
Fleeing Aleppo: Man recounts chaos leaving war-torn city
Shihab fled his home in eastern Aleppo, Syria, in the early hours Friday, Dec. 16. In the chaos, he managed to cram into an overcrowded bus leaving for safety in Idlib. Read his story.
Voices
‘Aslan is on the move’: Calling all Christians to respond
In an essay adapted from his speech at the Q Conference in April 2016, Pastor Greg Holder encourages the church — collectively and individually — to respond to the Syrian refugee crisis.
Voices
Loving through our differences at Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, Rich Stearns encourages us to pray for those — like refugees — who don’t have the homes, food, and family we celebrate today.
Voices
Recipe from Mosul, Iraq: Making Dolma away from home
Innovative projects through the World Food Programme empower people like Saeeda — displaced from Mosul, Iraq, two years ago — to cook a favorite recipe from home.