From Heather Goertzen.
Last Wednesday our dear cook, Feliza Mamani, shared in devotional on John the Baptist:
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:
“A voice of one calling in [...]
From Heather Goertzen.
Every first Friday of the month, our friends who prostitute gather early for work to participate in ch’alla. Ch’alla is a collective offering, burning of incense in which they offer prayers to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for protection, prosperity, etc. Our friends are often obligated to participate by brothel owners and management. Every first [...]
Heather Goertzen is reading Ted Loder’s Guerrillas of Grace:
Catch me in my anxious scurrying, Lord,
and hold me in this Lenten season:
hold my feet to the fire of your grace
and make me attentive to my mortality
that I may begin to die now
to those things that keep me
from living with you
and with my neighbors on this earth;
to [...]
From Heather Goertzen, Sept. 14, 2008.
I heard him say, “Come to me.
My burden is light
and gives way to clarity.”
-Caitlyn Turner (& Jesus)
(http://www.hopefoundation.org.au)
She’s a beautiful Aussie chic, who’s about the work of freedom, of love, of the kingdom. She’s one of many I spent last week with at an international conference for Christians involved in works [...]
From Heather Goertzen, Sept. 9, 2008.
We’ve been doing a little work with our mission statement, specifically on Tuesday as we were defining some pieces around our new economic/therapeutic option.
“In community,” it says, “we seek to practice and proclaim the Kingdom of God among those affected by prostitution, through relationship and opportunities for transformation.”
So I’d been [...]