Comments for Getting Dirty for Jesus!

Comment on Hope, Healing, and a Hand by Daiane

Daiane — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:05:40 +0000

Thank you for snhirag this post! It truly affirms much of what has guided my life-travels for the last many years.For over 20 years members of our Bay Area community have traveled to El Salvador to be in solidarity with a community of people we got to know through a refugee program. The refugees, staying in church sanctuaries in Palo Alto, told us that in order to truly understand them we needed to visit their country, to see what was happening in the civil war. Brave people went, dodging bullets and death squads, and carried the stories safely home.Our trips for these last two decades are about friendship, story-gathering, and working in partnership with the members of the community to determine what we can do together. Although our friends in Communidad Octavio Ortiz (La Canoa) truly appreciate other organizations and groups that do “mission” work and deliver aid, the relationship that we have is unique. We were with them when they were refugees and we walked along side them as they crossed the border back into El Salvador and took charge of their land along the Lempa River. We walked with them as they traveled across the country to vote, even though gun-toting militants threatened them every inch of the way. We have been with them through hurricanes and earthquakes. We have been with them as they celebrated victories, birthdays, new babies, and new buildings. And because we truly listened to them and partnered with them, we helped bring clean water wells to their community and got to see the bellies of their children go from being distended with germs to being flat and healthy. And from thousands of miles away most of the year, we work with our own government to promote fairness and democracy, and celebrated with them as the FMLN finally won the highest office in their land. We couldn’t have done any of that, nearly as well, if we weren’t truly friends.And our friends in El Salvador have been with us as we have grown in our understanding of ourselves, the world, and our walk with G-d. Doing is wonderful. Being is wonderful. Being with people and doing things together is priceless.

Comment on Where will you serve in 2010? by Ahmed

Ahmed — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:08:27 +0000

I would love a soseisn on crowdsourcing, especially one that gets into the practical challenges.

Comment on Two Days Down… by Riezan

Riezan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:56 +0000

Good for you, Mr. Warren Buffet! You’re ralley a wonderful man for using your fortune and authority to better.

Comment on Fall Blitz in Beaumont, TX: Volunteers Needed by Evans otieno juma

Evans otieno juma — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:15:20 +0000

We though who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those not strong, and not to be pleasing ourselves.Please i hear request to be part of your team.Currently volunteering in home based,reaching the down hearted souls hear in kenya.Longing to hear from you.God bless.evans.

Comment on Yukon Quest by Jera

Jera — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:13:24 +0000

Posts like this bihgrten up my day. Thanks for taking the time.

Comment on Help Make Ministry Happen at Yakama Christian Mission by Sukey

Sukey — Mon, 16 May 2011 23:22:57 +0000

That’s way more clever than I was epecxtnig. Thanks!

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