I have known Missy Ward Angalla since she began her service with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship more than ten years ago. I have a dee...

World Refugee Day is this Saturday, June 20. Originally we had planned on big events, both in Atlanta and in Washington, DC. We are of co...

The protests resulting from George Floyd’s asphyxiation by a white police officer arose just as COVID-19 measures were being loosened som...

Our face masks have arrived and are being worn by displaced people all along the US-Mexico border, a tangible image of the love that so m...

Vulnerability, according to the dictionary, is a state of being exposed to the possibility of harm—physical or emotional. Like many of yo...

(written by Nell late Monday evening) Today has been such a weird day…like every day since the beginning of March hasn’t been weird. But ...

You may recall that back in early January we made a trip to Juarez, Mexico on the Texas/Mexico border. The Off Ramp went to meet a group ...

To say that our hearts broke when we had to tell the refugees who work for Threads by Nomad that the studio would close would be an under...

We met Munir about two weeks after his arrival in the United States. A team of volunteers was delivering food baskets to newly arrived re...

From Christen: In times of uncertainty we realize that two things that are apparently opposite can both be true. For example, personally,...

Yes, things definitely are different and we are doing things in different ways. Nonetheless, we continue to address the needs of the disp...

It has been about ten days since we sent out the email detailing our face mask project. (If you didn't get that email for some reason, yo...

Haydar's last day in the studio was yesterday. Moving forward, he and Munir (and potentially others) will begin working from home as they...

If you follow us on social media, then you already know that we are working on what has the potential to be a major project. Over the wee...

We’ve been sitting on this bit of news for a little while. Why? We wanted to get all of our ducks in a row and the start of 2020 has been...

“How do you find the refugees who work for you?” The first time I was asked this question I had to stop and think. It dawned on me that I...

“How do you find the refugees who work for you?” The first time I was asked this question I had to stop and think. It dawned on me that I...

This week, the first episode of The Off Ramp Podcast went live on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This project had been in the works but was ...

Nell just returned from Juarez where on behalf of The Off Ramp she took a tour of shelters for asylum seekers in and around Juarez, Mexic...

2020! Can you believe it? A new decade calls for renewed focus. Even though Nell’s optometrist says her eyes are not in focus, that does ...