mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) (09/18/89)
ivy%chem@ucsd.edu (Ivy Blumberg) wrote: } [...] We just had a speaker } come to our church from Mexico city who made the point that the } Christians there considered it materialistic to own 3 shirts! } What a contrast to Southern California living! Apologies, Ivy, for not addressing your question. The fragment above reminded me of something I learned recently that might be of interest to those who read this newsgroup. The fellowship that I'm a member of is acquainted with George Caywood (Caewood?) who the director of the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles. He comes and spends time with us on occasion as a retreat and also to share with us his observations about what he sees happening in the inner city and what God is presently doing in the world. Recently, George had the privelege of attending the World Congress on Evangelism. He relayed some observations to us from that experience: 1. Thirld world christians have taken over the leadership roles in evangelical christianity. 2. Thirld world christians (though polite enough about it when talking to christians from industrialized nations) are extremely embarrased by state of western christianity and have to apologize for us to their constiuencies. 3. They are concerned for us and pray for us. I am most heartened and encouraged by the third observation. -- mark@DRD.Com (918) 743-3013 Jer. 9:23,24 {uunet,rutgers}!drd!mark