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Ordination of SIM Alumna makes National News
02/16/22
All at SIM offer our profound congratulations to Melina Dezhbod on her ordination. Please read the article to learn about Melina's flight from persecution in Iran and her subsequent journey to ordination. READ ARTICLE
"Although Melina doesn’t remember many details from her early childhood, she does remember strong emotions like fear and uncertainty. But she remembers experiencing another emotion when the American Episcopalians came to visit her exiled family in Turkey and offered to help bring them to the United States – an emotion she has come to identify as love."
“These strangers were coming from this foreign place …. Yet they welcomed us with open arms and did everything they could to support us,” she said. “That stayed with me. … I feel that I’m being called to represent that same love as I continue in ministry.”