Comments on: Seeking in the Midst of Chaos

By: Ross Carper

Ross Carper — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:49:24 +0000

Colin thank you for sharing this, it helps me know you better and want to know you even better 🙂

By: Kassandra Quick-Vana

Kassandra Quick-Vana — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:07:08 +0000

Colin, I love your sharing about your experience as a “privileged immigrant”. I have a good friend who is currently living and working in Nicaragua and she expresses similar observations about her ongoing experiences with her “immigrant” status. I resonate with your questioning God about what our response/action might be related to the current plight of immigrants in my community. I too pray we find the way forward on loving and serving them well while making meaningful strides toward resolving a very broken system!

By: Brigid Smith

Brigid Smith — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:42:03 +0000

Thank you for this, Colin. I, too, feel such deep sadness for those who are emigrating under duress and with no support – I have lived in France, England and Germany and always had some support getting settled. Even so, we ran into surprising roadblocks and unkind staff in each place. I can’t imagine what our refugee and poor immigrant siblings are going through. I am also hopeful and curious that we are meeting now of all times, and I hope and pray we can encourage one another into love and perseverance – together.

By: Chris Nafis

Chris Nafis — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:52:06 +0000

Appreciate you sharing about your immigration experience. My wife found herself unexpectedly in the midst of a crowd of people at the post office where they also have some passport services in the first week of the new administration. She said there was a palpable sense of fear and urgency in the room as a dozen or so people, all with immigrant status, were turned away because the services they needed weren’t available at that location. I think many of us feel the chaos and fear while still buffered from it a bit, and it’s both distressing and helpful to have these first-hand accounts that help us recognize the depth of the impact of changing immigration policies on the lives of people who may have their entire lives upended.

By: Dave Creel

Dave Creel — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:03:42 +0000

Well said, Colin! I appreciate the perspective you provided as someone who has experienced the anxiety felt through another country’s immigration system and your empathy for those who are suffering.
I resonate with the struggle to understand how our political system could perpetuate the falsehood that “western narratives are the only ones worth telling” and the sense of paralysis over how to change it. I wonder along with you at the unique timing of this cohort and what it might be preparing us for. Thank you so much for sharing your perspective and I’m looking forward to getting to know you more as a fellow musician and Oregonian!