Friends who read this: hello!

I would like to share a little of who I am, and how this shapes what I do.

My name is Dawn Tobin. I was born in 1986 and my parents welcomed me, along with other strangers, into their home in Pennsylvania. They gave me a name and a proverb: “The steps of the righteous are like the light of dawn that shines brighter and brighter until the full light of day.” After sharing life with their neighbors and people in prison, my parents decided to move to South East Asia to live out good news among the Thai people. Deferring smiles, mango trees and rice fields became my new home for many years.

An awareness of cultures and the vast inequalities between my neighbors who live in different countries has followed me around since then. Or perhaps I should say it led me to hunger for an understanding of God who could hold all this beauty combined with so much pain. In the beginning, I found the framework of justice this God had created: Sabbath rest and the year of Jubilee. And slowly, I found and am finding a Person who is here with us, who is full of love, who earns my trust.

Only after I came to the Good Works community as a summer intern, did my proverb become comprehensible to me. Through Jesus, I am “the righteous” and am propelled into righteousness, into loving relationships with my neighbors who are struggling, by a vision of heaven, of shalom: the full light of day. Each small expression of mercy and friendship then, is a drop in the ocean of eternal goodness, which will soon overtake us.

Here are some articles Dawn has written:

Three Questions	Sharing About Vancouver	Summer 2007 Reflection
Conflict Reflection