Articles by John Lee

John Lee grew up on a third-generation dairy farm in Northern Michigan before attending Calvin University. John then served 2001-04 with Christian Reformed World Missions/World Relief Committee in Nicaragua. He returned for a Master of Divinity seminary degree from Calvin Theological Seminary (2004-08), including graduate work in Israel, where he met his wife, Mary Jo. Bethel Christian Reformed Church is the first North American church they’ve served.

Pastor John just completed nine years on the Dordt University Board of Trustees and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Christian Reformed Church’s Council of Delegates and is active with an immigrant ministry board, CASA.

Immigration: A Tale of Two Grandfathers

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For many of us, the daily struggle of 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States is not a very real wound in our hearts but rather an abstract piece of data in our heads. To paraphrase Joseph Stalin: ‘The distress of one undocumented person is a tragedy. The distress of millions is a statistic.’ Rather than weeping with those who weep, we are content simply to count them.

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