I just read a story about a team of Volunteers-in-Mission who were working on homes in New Orleans. Not so unusual, except this team was made up of volunteers from Methodist churches in Mexico. It's a great story, and you can read at the following link: http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor-hotline/20060131.cfm.
It's those stories that no only stir my heart, but challenge me to approciate more fully and consistantly what it means to be a global church. There was the story last fall of one of our United Methodist Communication staff persons who was in Liberia (West Africa) after Katrina hit and mentioned that she was from New Orleans. The church there gave her money to take back to assist in the Katrina recovery. Absolutely amazing...
We're not dead yet.
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