Vol.
12, No.
20 oCtoBer 21, 2011BAtoN roUGe, lA
NoN-Profit
U.
S.
PoStAGe
PAidBAtoN
roUGe,lA
527NorthBlvd.
Batonrouge,lA
70802-5700
Latino Ministry
Roberts UMC / 4
Russians / 3
Douglas UMC / 5
A crying woman, whose husband beat
and humiliated her...
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Vol.
12, No.
20 oCtoBer 21, 2011BAtoN roUGe, lA
NoN-Profit
U.
S.
PoStAGe
PAidBAtoN
roUGe,lA
527NorthBlvd.
Batonrouge,lA
70802-5700
Latino Ministry
Roberts UMC / 4
Russians / 3
Douglas UMC / 5
A crying woman, whose husband beat
and humiliated her constantly, asked me,
“Pastor, how can the power of God
change my present reality? I don’t understand when you tell me that with God,
the best is yet to come and that we have
begun to taste it in the present.
”
I asked her if she could see herself
happy and without fear.
“No,” she said,
but I began seeing in her face the determination of someone who understands
that God created her to be happy, free
and without fear.
It has been a year since
that conversation, and it is now difficult
to remember the terror and bitterness in
her face.
Christ gave her strength and energy to
leave her abuser — who did not want to
know anything about Christ — and to
study and reinvent herself.
It is not easy to minister to the
Hispanic community in New Orle
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