Misha Cohen Photography

My latest photos. Praise God people are hearing of me, this was a shoot of a three week old...so sweet! If you know any New Yorkers pass along my name! :)

A New Friend

Ok, I am really into this-wow, why did it take me so long! :)
I, Misha here who will probably do most of the communicating, am volunterring with a wonderful organization called the International Rescue Committee as a Youth Mentor. This is the realization of a beautiful burden the Lord placed on my heart years ago-a burden for Africa (whatever that means-the Lord fine tunes it daily). After moving to NYC I thought, "How can I help Africa while living here in the States?" then the Lord said, "Africa is Here!" The Lord is never wrong; He then put on my heart a desire to work with refugees helping them in their transition to life in of all places crazy New York City. So after: seeing a few documentaries, sending some emails, doing websearches, going to interviews and training sessions and LOTS of prayer I am Mentoring a wonderful teenager from Sierra Leonne, Umu. We immediately connected with a HUGE hug and had a blast on our first adventure together. We went picnicking in Central Park on a beautiful sunny day-it was her first time there! This is the LIFE connecting with people! Praise You Lord!

I finally did it!!!

A wonderful friend encouraged me to share our life out here in NYC through a blog...thanks Barbie!

So I will start back a bit to give you all a glimpse into our life here.

Here is a photo from Easter, it was such a special day! We fit 21 people into our apt with some furniture rearrangements. Some new friends and some old friends and even family were here-representing 7 countries we were a glimpse of the beautiful diversity of New York City. We love hosting dinners, we love serving people, we love our friends!