Living Communities

Two Act Six scholars, Mailia Yang and Konstantin Tachan, arranged for students in Whitworth's Article and Feature Writing class to spend the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday weekend with Hmong and Russian families from their churches. Students spent two nights with these families, sharing meals, chores and fun. The students wrote profiles about family members' journeys of faith and immigration. These are their stories.

• Hmong Culture: Faith, Family, and Freedom, by Megan Fraser

• Surviving a Hard Journey, by Nejela Almohanna

• Leschinskiy Puts Faith First, by David Dennis

• Bringing Their Faith with Them, by Audrey Gore

• A Family Legacy of Faith, by Kim Bailey

• A Hmong-American’s View on Faith, by Jessica Knuth and Holly Gregg

• A Life of Many Changes, by Aryn Gessel

• Faith through Hardship: Anna’s Story, by Andrea Idso