"Sons from Afar"

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In Penny’s view, loving her neighbor is as safe as stampeding cattle, and God can’t be trusted to keep her loved ones safe. Harsh experience taught her these facts when she was a teen. Now a wife and homeschool mom, she’s built protective walls around her family. So far, it’s worked. But when her husband takes a job as Security Director for a church on the US border, those walls begin to shake. Cross the River is the church’s ministry to people who enter the country illegally. Church leadership expects Penny to participate—but will anyone vet the people Cross the River serves? No one seems to care about Penny’s concerns. Caught between fears for her family’s safety and the threat of shunning and unemployment if she doesn’t cooperate, Penny signs up to help. Things seem fine—until she starts to suspect the ministry is not all it seems. When a vulnerable child’s safety hangs in the balance, Penny must step out in the courage of sacrificial love—or watch her children’s faith wither in the self-protective prison she’s built.