The Volunteer Nobody Expected
In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Elena Aguilar sat in a folding chair at a community meeting in Flint, Michigan, listening to officials explain...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 1:26-38.
In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Elena Aguilar sat in a folding chair at a community meeting in Flint, Michigan, listening to officials explain that the city's water was safe. She knew it wasn't. Her students came to school with rashes. Their drawings had turned listless. Something was deeply wrong. When a Virginia Tech researcher named Marc Edwards needed local volunteers to collect water samples from hundreds of homes, Elena raised her hand.…
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