How to Celebrate New Year’s?

Here in Ethiopia, we celebrated the New Year this past September with singing and dancing in the lively streets of Addis Ababa. One of the remarkable groups that performed named themselves the Samaritan Family. Clad in vibrant, traditional attire, adorned with...

A Life Hack for Christmas

Why did Barry Sanders retire so abruptly from the Detroit Lions in 1999? Amazon Prime recently released Bye Bye Barry, a 90-minute documentary to relive the glory days and reminisce about what could have been. By the end of the film, Barry concedes that it was...

Good Things From Tough Places

Can anything good come from Nazareth? This is how Nathaniel, who became one of Jesus’s apostles, responded when he learned where Jesus was from. It’s a question our scholars often face themselves—either as they interview for jobs or enter schools outside of their...

What Can I Do?

I was introduced to International Samaritan in 2022, through an invitation from my church to go to Honduras and learn about “garbage dump” communities and to help people there break out of poverty. I thought, “Wow! There are 15 million people worldwide in this...