Articles by John Lee

John Lee grew up on a third-generation dairy farm in Northern Michigan before attending Calvin College. 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 their first North American church they’ve served.

Pastor John is a member of the Dordt College Board of Trustees, various denominational committees, 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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