The Grocery Run on Ash Wednesday
For three years, the women's Bible study at Redeemer Church in Tulsa fasted every Wednesday during Lent. They skipped lunch, gathered in the fellowship hall,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
For three years, the women's Bible study at Redeemer Church in Tulsa fasted every Wednesday during Lent. They skipped lunch, gathered in the fellowship hall, and prayed through the psalms. It was beautiful, disciplined, holy work. Then Maria Gutierrez mentioned, almost offhandedly, that the elderly residents at Whispering Pines apartments two blocks east had no reliable transportation to a grocery store.…
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