Thanks for following Creating A Road Home in 2015! It has been a very formative year for us as we have launched our website and begun connecting on other social media platforms. CARH has also strategically positioned staff members in new areas to train and connect Christians to people in need. While in the past, CARH teams have made an …

Recently, IKEA (bless them and their cheap bookcases) has teamed up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to create Better Shelter – a new type of humanitarian aid that allows for a housing unit to be shipped in two flatpack boxes anywhere in the world. The shelters can be easily constructed with simple tools, are weather-proof, and come …

How have you shared your story lately? Comment and let us know how you’re telling the story of Christ in your church, hometown, and around the world!

If you follow us on any of our social media platforms (add us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!), you’ll notice we frequently tag #shareyourstory. The crux of our faith is centered around a story – a story that tells of a God who is desirous of His people. We live around the story that because God loved us so extravagantly, …

Evan Anderson joined us on our trip to serve refugees in Greece this October. He shared some of his experiences on his personal blog, Room Full of Elephants: These refugees—these people are not something different than me…the bottom line is that we are all the same. And I honestly can’t think of a more eloquent or poetic or creative way to …

At Creating A Road Home, we are huge advocates of proper cultural training so that our teams can best serve in an international context. For each of our trips, we coordinate training sessions for our participants, who either Skype in or attend in person at our headquarters in New Orleans. One way that we prepare our teams before they go is equipping them …

Many thanks to the leader of our Greece team for this beautiful shot of their Thanksgiving dinner this year. She put it best when she wrote, “It’s certainly not the most elegant “tablescape,” but this Thanksgiving dinner was messy and memorable in the best possible ways. So grateful for this family and for the families who lent them to me …

As Christians, we talk a lot about the Great Commission. Rightfully so: it is arguably one of the most important commandments given to believers from Jesus. The Gospel of Matthew tells us that the disciples went to Galilee and Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son …

Tomorrow morning, we are sending a team of 10 to Greece. They will be partnering with a refugee center and other ministries there. Please pray with us for their safety and for humble hearts as they go to serve. Check us out on social media and stay up to date with our team! Facebook  Twitter  Instagram

Refugees have been a constant conversation in my world this week. With the flooding of news articles circulating, I feel like I am perpetually hearing someone’s opinion about the refugee crisis. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the number of social media posts about issues such as this. In order to help ourselves to have more intelligent and fruitful conversations about refugee …