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“Go quickly into the streets and alleys
of the...
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VOL.
10, NO.
1 JANUARY 9, 2009BATON ROUGE, LA
NON-PROFIT
U.
S.
POSTAGE
PAIDBATON
ROUGE,LA
PERMIT#575
527NorthBlvd.
BatonRouge,LA
70802-5700
Circle Up
Sevier UMC / 6
Scholarship Insert / 3-5
Walker UMC / 7
“Go quickly into the streets and alleys
of the city and invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame and the blind.
” Luke 14: 21
MLT
As Bishop William W.
Hutchison has
said, “God did not say, ‘Open the church
doors and let them come in’.
Instead he
said, ‘Go out and bring them in.
’”
A good example of “go out into the
streets and bring them in” can be found at
University United Methodist Church in
Lake Charles.
This mission was started
two years ago when the director of the
Calcasieu Parish Samaritan Counseling
service, Mickey Shannon, got tired of seeing so many depressed, lonely, and anxiety
-prone people who were not getting the
help they needed.
“Most of the ones I saw,” said Mickey,
“have been diagnosed with a mental disability like bi-polar, depression, anxiety.
Others just
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