This isn't a book.

This is a pilgrimage.

Pilgrimage takes us outside our expected patterns

and into something immediately more

challenging and dynamic. It's on pilgrimage

that our souls begin a journey that takes

us up mountain passes and brings us down

transformed.

This pilgrimage of Unnoticed Neighbors

seeks to do the same so we can taste and

see what's around us and meet the different

people with whom we share this world—a

world that is both beautiful and ugly.

You'll meet women from northern Uganda

who are AIDS and civil war survivors and

Burmese refugees living down the street in

U.S. neighborhoods. You'll uncover why the

poor remain poor, despite aid and charity.

You'll see the saving grace of education and

the real protection it gives to some from

the most brutal injustices. You'll go behind

and into the human trafficking underworld

and perhaps you'll see your neighbor—from

across the street or across the world—for the

first time.