The Table No One Expected
In 2018, a small Baptist church in rural Alabama had the same Wednesday night potluck they'd hosted for forty years — casseroles on folding tables,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Acts 11:1-18.
In 2018, a small Baptist church in rural Alabama had the same Wednesday night potluck they'd hosted for forty years — casseroles on folding tables, sweet tea in Styrofoam cups, the same twelve families filling the same seats. Then a Syrian refugee family walked through the door. The Hadids had been placed in town by a resettlement agency, and someone had handed them a flyer.…
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