Everything Would Change

by Kent Annan The adults were streaming to Jesus. Little children, too. By this point in his ministry, Jesus was attracting a pretty good crowd wherever he showed up. Amidst all the clamoring, the disciples, naturally enough, took it upon themselves to help Jesus prioritize. Give precedence to the ones with seniority, with position, with […]

Emptied for Love

by Kent Annan The following reflection is a revised entry from Kent Annan’s online journal. Kent Annan and his wife, Shelly Satran lived for seven months in Nandimba, Haiti, as part of Beyond Borders’ Apprenticeship in Shared Living Program. They met while both students at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, where after graduation Kent […]

Christmas Turkey on a Summer Morning

by Kent Annan He’d threatened to do it during each of my last few visits to see them when I was in Haiti. When I woke up in the middle of the night, drowsy in the faint glow of a kerosene lamp, I heard some rustling outside. Maybe it’s the chickens or a goat that […]

Adapting to Reality

By John Engle “I’m hopeful because my work is bearing fruit,” said Samson, a Beyond Borders and Limyè Lavi colleague, when I asked how things were going for him. I had just returned to Haiti for the first time since I’d moved back to the United States almost three months ago with my wife, Merline, […]