Acting in Faith – Part 2
Dennis Shierman2021-09-23T14:20:41-04:00CBM and Westview Baptist Church produced an online workshop last January 30, 2021 entitled “Acting in Faith: Mission in the Age of COVID”.
CBM and Westview Baptist Church produced an online workshop last January 30, 2021 entitled “Acting in Faith: Mission in the Age of COVID”.
Cries of celebration filled the land when the new nation of South Sudan officially came into existence on July 9, 2011. Six years later, tears of joy have turned to sorrow as the country has been torn apart by fighting, suffering and now famine. After such a hopeful start, what went so horribly wrong.
Pastor Shadrack Mutabazi meets me over dinner. Our friendship began in 2012 when I first attended a service of Shalom Christian Fellowship – a church he started in Winnipeg. Over the past four years I have been riveted by pieces of Shadrack’s story. Tonight Shadrack has agreed to give me the larger narrative for
Compassion is a powerful force. Stories of compassion are often found in places of tragedy and suffering. These are the locations of wounded and broken people. Members of a small Baptist Church in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon know about compassion. They saw over a million Syrian refugees pour into their country - desperate