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FILLING OUR POTHOLES

Wednesday, February 4. 2009

Our local DPW has a hard time keeping our streets clear after snow and ice storms.  They always do the main roads first and leave the side roads till later- much later, if ever.  Seem like most of us have the main roads of our lives clear and passable most of the time.  Our troubles come on the side streets we take and the pot holes that we do not deal with till later- if ever.  


Posted by Cal in Christian Living at 14:07 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

WELCOMING VISITORS

Wednesday, February 4. 2009

We couldn't make it to our normal Church Services recently because of the road conditions so we attended a Service near our house.  Roads and sidewalke were still a mess and slippery.  So were the sidewalk and steps going into the church building.  Once in we saw two ushers in the foyer, chatting while they waited for folks to arrive.  They welcomed us, but I was disgusted.  Didn't they know how bad the walks and steps were?  Apparently not their job.  They didn't care and kept chatting. They had made it in, apparently through a side door only regulars would know about. I found a shovel and cleared the walks and steps- not my job either. We were visitors.  But it had to be done before someone fell and got hurt.  Not a warm welcome, for sure. We know this particular church is dying,  I wonder if indifference to the needs of visitors could be part of the reason?

Posted by Cal in Church at 14:06 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

PRAYING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS

Wednesday, February 4. 2009

Across the street from the aforementioned church is a Middle School.  Around 2:30 every weekday hundreds of young teens gush from the bowels of the building and pour out on the sidewalks and into the street.  Like a river, they flow around the church which stands empty most of the time.  Rapidly and noisely, they disappear into the neighboring-hoods.  Almost all of students are Hispanic or African American.  I pray for them and I pray especially for their Teachers.  What  important and "challenging" work they have cut out for them.  I am very thankful for Christians who answer the call to minister in Public Schools, all public schools, but particularly inner city ones.  (To be honest I wouldn't want to do it. But I was an inner city social worker and an inner city Pastor and we have lived for years in an "inner city")  Most of the students in our City drop out before twelfth grade.  The majority live below the poverty level.  Many are from single parent homes.  In spite of that, our Superintendent is quoted in today's paper that "Demographics do not determine destiny."  He himself is a Black man with a PhD who has a tough "No excuses" policy.  He says self esteem is important and the way to find it is through academic achievement!  And he repeats the truism, the key to that achievement is parental involvement.  I pray for him too.  Good man!
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