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As a high school senior, like most others I was trying to figure out where to go to college and what to do with my life and career. But as my mom and I sat in the car together one afternoon, we had a pivotal conversation. I was telling her about my plans (or lack thereof), and lamenting my distaste for schoolwork and my general sense of indecisiveness concerning my future. Her advice to me was simple, yet profound, especially in a culture that places educational pursuits above almost all else. “You know, Julie, you don’t have to go to college right away,” my mom said. “You can always try a missions program like YES.”
Our vision for the English Institute is now being realized in a neighborhood here we were told no one – especially girls – would want to come. It is located in a blue-collar, lower-middle-class neighborhood, where nothing of the sort has existed in recent history. This felt like the neighborhood where God opened the door for us to begin. Since a few of us live here too, we were excited about the “upside-down kingdom” element of having it here.
DADAB, Kenya – Hedi Lee, a Paraguayan Mennonite who serves as a member of the Eastern Mennonite Missions team in Nairobi, facilitated two multi-national teams which visited the Dadab refugee camp in October. 

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