The Parking Lot Clinic
Every Sunday morning, the congregation of Grace Fellowship in Baton Rouge sang three hymns, bowed for a long pastoral prayer, and drove home past the...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Isaiah 58:1-12.
Every Sunday morning, the congregation of Grace Fellowship in Baton Rouge sang three hymns, bowed for a long pastoral prayer, and drove home past the same stretch of Plank Road where uninsured families waited outside a shuttered urgent care clinic. For years, nobody mentioned it. The worship was earnest. The prayers were sincere. The fasting during Lent was faithfully observed.…
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