Over the last few years Samantha and I have spent time discussing our future life and ministry. InnerCHANGE asks its staff to take a sabbatical every seventh year for spiritual rest and renewal. Our sabbatical will begin in mid-2011 and last for six months.
After sabbatical, our current plan is for our family to move to the United States so that Sam can pursue further studies to become a nurse practitioner. The study will begin in early 2012. We expect this study to take roughly 3 years.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hungry for Justice
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled"
Earlier this week I spent two days with thirty community nonviolence activists from around Cambodia. In the evening of the first day I sat aside to read some Scripture. The passages I'm meditating on these days are the Sermons on the Mount, in Matthew and Luke, as well as Paul's version in Romans 12. I was surrounded by poor Cambodian farmers, fishing folk, foresters, day labourers, and villagers. Their homes, fishing grounds, forests, lakes and water ways are all under intense risk of destruction or appropriation. If anyone could be described as "poor in spirit", mourners, meek, seekers of righteousness (justice), builders of peace, and persecuted, these folk fit the bill. My eyes grew wide in awe as I sat amongst these blessed ones and watched Scripture come alive.
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