Mission to Salt Lake City #2

Lectionary Reading........................Daily Reading

Jerusalem Cross "gardening" commenced today in earnest. We began the day with two of the Jerusalem Cross gardening acts: the practice of lectio divina (divine reading), an act of devotion, drawing nearer to God as we learned to listen rather than talk our praying, and the act of compassion, packing school kits for distribution to children of the impoverished West Bank in Palestine.
Assembly lines were formed and at the end of the day 1400 kits had been boxed and pallet-ed. Very movingly, as 28 boxes on a pallet had been saran wrapped, the helpers gathered around, laid hands on the boxes and prayed the Pallet Prayer:

Most Gracious and Loving God, we come together to do your work: One item at a time, One kit at a time, One box at a time, One pallet at a time, to serve One person at a time, who is, One from the multitude of your children in need across this world. Amen.

And together with a mission team of United Methodists from the Memphis Conference we prayed and were deeply touched at what UMCOR is doing through the generosity and time of countless volunteers.

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