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The firefighters didn't hesitate.

September 11, 2001. The World Trade Center was burning. People were streaming out of the towers as fast as they could move. The FDNY ran in. The phrase that became their identity that day has stayed with me for twenty-five years.

When others rush out, we rush in.

That phrase surfaced again recently.

Jan and I are preparing to travel to Jordan. Not for the first time. A year ago, we spent three weeks there through our nonprofit Eagles Rest, training leaders to understand their identity and live from that place.

The people we trained were remarkable:

• A shop owner who employs blind and handicapped women in a country with little in the way of government support.
• A woman working among the Bedouin people, where women grow up without a sense of self or worth, often the victim of abuse from family members in a society where women's voices are ignored.
• Expat families raising teenage daughters in a culture where, once they become teen-agers, those daughters can't go outside without a brother alongside them.
• A man from Syria who fled ISIS when they took over his home town and starting murdering his neighbors
• A Palestinian refugee whose mother taught him to treat the IDF soldiers with love and respect instead of hatred and spite. As an adult, he now shares that message with others.

The pressures facing those people were intense then. They're more intense now.

Gaza. The war with Iran. Last week, we received an email from a group serving U.S. nationals and Jordanians in the region. The message was simple: We're struggling. We need help.

In our conversations with friends there, we've heard things that are hard to sit with:

And in the middle of all of it, parents asking the question every parent would ask: What is this doing to my children? Are they growing up in fear? What are they learning?

And yet, without exception, every one of them says the same thing. We are staying. This is our home. This is our work. These are our people.

On March 31, we arrive in Jordan.

From April 1 through April 25, we'll work directly with seven Jordanian and expat leaders, training them to help others live and lead from overflow instead of overwhelm.

That's been the mission of Eagles Rest since 2018, and it's the same heartbeat behind Edens View. Overflow instead of overwhelm. For small business leaders wrestling with the challenges that come from success; for parish priests facing unprecedented growth and a shortage of staff; and yes, for people in a country where rockets and drones are flying overhead.

Those people didn't invent that FDNY phrase. They're just living it. Every day. In ways most of us will never have to.

We want to come alongside them.

I'm covering my own travel costs. But Jan is traveling through Eagles Rest, and a month away with international airfare in this season of rising fuel costs is significant.

I have a hard time watching the news and doing....nothing. If you share that feeling and feel called to support what we're doing, we'd love to give you the opportunity to partner with us.

You can give here: https://eaglesrest.org/give​

All donations are tax-deductible through our 501(c)3:

If prayer is your offering, we'll take that too. We're aware of what we're walking into.

We're walking in anyway.

Because when others rush out.

We're choosing to rush in.

Thank you for your continued support. With Anticipation, David Limiero PS, If someone forwarded this email to you, you can sign up to get your weekly newsletter here.