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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Friday, November 16, 2007

To answer the call or not

When is it right to fight for the 10 righteous that remain and when is it better to shake the dust off your feel and move on?

La Isla (first ILAG church and source on continued legal battles over ownership of the land)—the cause of so much pain and invested energy. They send out the hornets then call us to protect and save them while they hide. Masters of manipulation, they “repent” right when we (Padre Horacio and Esther) begin to think about skaking off the dust. Padre Horacio and Esther say the last thing to die is hope. In Genesis when Lot’s wife turned back—perhaps in lament, or in hope that all was really not lost— she became a pillar of salt, receiving the same end as the sinners within. Out of stubbornness will we too feel the results of sin in our own flesh—we already are. Every time Padre enters into La Isla it is Horacio, my husband and Padre's son, who gets phone calls threatening his life. Padre and Esther don’t like to hear the consequences—instead they defend those harming us. For me, for at least two years, I have believed that we cannot be their pastors, they cannot/ will not hear the word of our Lord from our lips. If we shake off the dust, our Lord will send them a preacher.
This community is currently calling Horacio and I to enter to be their pastors every Sunday but for me it is a call from the old Adam not from God.

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