The next time your family sits down at the table and begins their meal, look around and ask yourself: What would cause you to gather everyone up to leave your homeland for an unknown, foreign country?
What dangers must exist to make a trek through unfamiliar territory, to an uncertain future, seem the right thing to do?
John Ferry
Portland
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