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Let's Advocate Together
Sometimes the best way to help is to find someone already positioned to make a difference – and walk alongside them.
As a Refugee Policy Fellow, I'm based in Seattle but work alongside my team in Geneva, Switzerland to advocate at the United Nations level, with churches exploring refugee resettlement, and alongside educators serving displaced families. It's meaningful work, but I can't do it alone. Would you consider joining me?
Listen to the Stories of Impact
In this five-part series, I’ll be sharing stories of impact, the theology behind refugee advocacy, and how you can be part of this Kingdom work. I'd be honored if you took a few minutes to watch.
1 in Every 70 People are Displaced Right Now:
Will You Partner With Me? (1/5)
117.3 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide—that’s 1 in every 70 people on earth. In this video, I’m starting a December journey to share the reality of the global refugee crisis and the work I do at the World Evangelical Alliance and at the United Nations advocating for refugees.
One Family's Story: Why This Work Matters (2/5)
A few weeks ago in Southeast Asia, I met a family of six who fled religious persecution. Three years later, they’re registered with the UN as refugees, but still living in fear—kids out of school, parents unable to work, constant threat of deportation.
The mother asked me: “If it takes ten or twelve more years to get resettled, what kind of life do my children live right now?”
This is why I'm advocating at the United Nations—to make sure stories like theirs are heard by policymakers. This story illustrates what happens when UN advocacy meets frontline ministry and in my next video, I’ll show you how this creates lasting change.
"We are the Forgotten Ones" | When Refugee Stories Are Heard at the UN (3/5)
"We are the forgotten ones." Those words came from Nara, a young Afghan woman who fled with her two younger brothers after her parents and two older brothers were kidnapped. This October at the UN, my team and I gave her and four other persecuted Christians a platform to share their stories directly with ambassadors, policymakers, and church leaders.
Ann Voskamp writes in the book, No Longer Strangers: "Maybe the Father of Exiles, the Exiled Man himself, is asking us to see His presence among the exiles." Jesus knows what it's like to be displaced, to be forgotten, to have no safe place. When we listen to refugees, we're encountering Him.
Here's what happened: in the weeks following our event, governments who previously denied the existence of Christian Afghans began reconsidering their protection policies because of the stories shared that day.
Nara and the others aren't forgotten anymore. This is what advocacy does: when refugees are given a platform and their voices reach the right people, policies shift.
Why This Work Isn't Just Good, It's Biblical (4/5)
To become more like Jesus is to adopt his heart. And in order to do that we have to ask ourselves, what is God's heart for strangers? Foreigners? Refugees?
Jesus himself was a refugee. He fled persecution as a child, becoming an asylum seeker in Egypt. He had no permanent home. He was “a man of suffering” who knows what it's like to be displaced. And throughout Scripture He invites us to love the stranger among us (Leviticus 19, Matthew 25), and Micah 6, tells us what God requires: “to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” Not outward performance, but justice, mercy, and humility.
When the church shows up for refugees with radical generosity, we’re showing the world what the Kingdom of God actually looks like.
Key Scriptures: Leviticus 19:33-34, Matthew 25:35-40, Matthew 2, Micah 6:6-8
Will You Partner With Me? (5/5)
Over these videos, you’ve seen what happens when refugees get a platform. When Nara stood at the UN and said “We are the forgotten ones,” policies shifted. You’ve heard why Scripture calls us to this—it’s who we are as followers of Christ.
Now I’m asking: will you partner with me?
Here’s some perspective: the world spent $2.7 trillion on defense last year (UN News). Less than 1% of that could help people in crises worldwide. We have resources. The question is: what will we do with them?
I want you to pray about two numbers. The safe number—what feels comfortable. And the faith number—the one that requires trust. I’m in this with you. If we commit gifts of faith, we can change lives and generations.
My year-end goal is $10,000, and we’re halfway there. But the truth is, I'm still fundraising to cover my funding needs completely beyond the year-end goal. Every gift matters.
Your partnership keeps me at the UN elevating refugee voices, connecting frontline practitioners, and catalyzing the church to respond. Would you pray and ask the Lord how you might partner with me in this work?
Join the Community:
Prayer and encouragement
This work starts and ends with prayer, and I'd be honored to have you praying alongside me. I'll send monthly updates sharing what God is doing, specific ways to pray, and celebrating the small wins together.
No financial commitment needed - just your prayers and the occasional encouraging text mean the world.
Financial partnerships
Honestly, this work wouldn't be possible without friends who believe in it enough to help make it sustainable. If God has blessed you in a way that you're able to support this financially, I'm deeply grateful.
Monthly partnerships starting at $25 - whatever feels right for your season.
church partnerships
You know your church better than I do. If you think your community might be interested in learning more about refugee ministry or having me share about this work, I'd love to explore that together - no pressure, just possibilities.
Maybe introduce me to your pastor, or suggest a coffee meeting. Only if it feels like a natural fit.