Having Faces: Being Neighbor

I came to Guatemala with a Graduate Preaching Fellowship in 2004 to learn to be neighbor. I was ordained at the St. Paul Area Synod Assembly in June 2007 as a pastor of the Iglesia Luterana Agustina de Guatemala and commissioned for service by two Synods of the ELCA and the Global Mission Unit of the ELCA. I serve in Guatemala with the ILAG as a missionary and a pastor.

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Location: Guatemala

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Unimaginable

Today a woman came by the office of the ILAG with her six year old daughter. The girl had a suitcase in hand. The mother entered and said in front of her daughter that she did not want her daughter any more and that we could have her. She had heard that we had several youth living here on scholarship. According to the mother, the daughter was not well behaved and she was sick of her. If we did not take her daughter she knew of others who would.

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