Comforting orphans

What is our charge as a church? Where are our priorities? Friends, you know that this has been my mission this past year, to look beyond the paradigm of what a church is... walls, roof, pastor, congregation, Sunday service, ritual, budgets, councils... and find what the church should be. I know that all these parts are necessary for my group to continue... but I continue to think that the real work of the Lord takes place on the edge, in a homeless shelter, on the streets on a prayer walk, or while reaching out to others.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27

Our little group has forged a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Adair. There is something amazing about spending time with these kids. It is medicine-- both for the hearts of the children who often don't have many positive influences in their lives, and for our own hearts, to give time to kids selflessly. But more importantly, going to the Boys and Girls Club plants hope, hope for a brighter future. When we love them, their faces light up. Their world becomes brighter. Perhaps our world becomes a better place.

Keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:1-2

To think, friends, we have put on a show for angels, just by helping others in Jesus name. Reach out beyond your comfortable existence and be the medicine to change the world