by International Samaritan | Oct 27, 2023 | Weekend Reflections
One of our Samaritan Scholars in Ethiopia, Baye, grew up with an abusive father. His father’s harsh and unbearable presence inflicted deep wounds on Baye and his mother. Despite summoning the courage to leave and forge their own path, the pain would resurface,...
by International Samaritan | Oct 20, 2023 | Weekend Reflections
Elizabeth, age 14, hopes to become a journalist. That looked like an impossible dream just a few months ago as she didn’t have the money to continue with school past the sixth grade. Money is tight because Elizabeth’s mother is the family breadwinner, and she’s a...
by International Samaritan | Oct 13, 2023 | Weekend Reflections
As the program director in Jamaica, I spend a lot of time praying for the scholars in my program. As I’ve been praying, the word resilience has been echoing in my head for months. Looking at the definition, resilience means “the capacity to recover quickly from...
by International Samaritan | Oct 6, 2023 | Weekend Reflections
This past spring, I went on a service trip to Guatemala with 11 other parishioners from the St. Mary Student Parish in Ann Arbor. I had no idea the impact this trip would have on me. We started off traveling in our minibus to the Francisco Coll elementary school. We...
