Please pray!

The news about the recent xenophobic attacks throughout South Africa may or may not have reached the desks of US newscasters. In the past 24 hours, however, these attacks-aimed exclusively at other Africans (no Europeans or Americans have been targeted)-have spread to Cape Town.

As we speak, the Warehouse (the organization for whom I am working) is receiving those who have been displaced by these acts of injustice. Some are coming because they were forced; others are coming because they are simply (and understandably) scared.

Please pray for God’s mercy and justice in this situation, and for us as we work to receive the victims to provide food, shelter, and storage of household possessions to them. Please pray, as well, for the violence to stop.

I am perfectly safe and privileged to be among an organization of believers who are responding to this situation with courage and compassion. There is no need to be concerned about me! I am only asking for your prayers over South Africa in the coming days.

Much love to you all.

christian

 

 

Buechner wrote that “life itself is grace”. Follow me for the next twelve weeks, as I write about what that means for a twenty year old follower of Jesus studying poor people in South Africa. Hopefully, I will remember this given experience as a story about Jesus again crowning himself in my own heart for His greater purposes and His kingdom, a story of the “inward coronation,” wrote George Buttrick, “that takes place among confession, and tears, and great laughter.”