English L'Abri One Day I'll See You Face to Face: Encountering the Stranger (Ingvild Hellenes, L'Abri worker)
Feb 20, 2026
Ingvild Hellenes, a L'Abri worker and lecturer on Christian hospitality and global justice, explores how we treat the invisible people who make our goods. She contrasts consumerism with hospitality, examines exploitation in global supply chains, and offers practical steps like Fairtrade, traceability, small local actions, and imagining meeting producers face to face.
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From Bonfire To Lasting Aid
- A 19-year-old Norwegian, Anna-Louise, met a starving Kenyan village and used her resources to help immediately.
- Her call home and subsequent fundraising grew into Aid in Action feeding thousands and building local projects.
Hidden Dependency On Unknown Makers
- Most items we depend on daily are made by strangers we never meet.
- This hidden dependence makes distant producers morally relevant to our lives.
Contemplate Or Exploit
- Consumerism reduces people to things we buy and sell, enabling exploitation.
- The choice in human interactions is framed as either contemplating persons or exploiting them.
