Email to George Verwer

I sen an email to George with this excerpt in it about a recent event from last week that I was involved with in the slums of Bombay...

Two days ago, a local municipality thug came with 15 guys and destroyed
>a room that the Good Shepherd ministry had just built to extend their
>school so that they could educate more children. The room was supposed
>to be another classroom. We had just finished cleaning it up and
>arranging the desks when they showed up and destroyed it all within 2
>hours. It is legal for them to do this but they should do it to all of
>the squatters in the area. They don’t because they’ve been paid bribes
>and so the inhabitants live under a constant tyranny and at any time,
>they could be uprooted and have their home destroyed. Bama is the
>leader here – a lady that was on the ship when you showed them your
>global underwear – she still remembers of course. She’s a special lady
>and has been in OM for 20 years. After the destruction, we cleaned up
>and got it all out of the way so that they wouldn’t come back and keep
>giving us problems. At the end of the day Bama sat in her chair and
>cried while the local Christians from the slum surrounded her and
>hugged her. She had entered into their world of tyranny and suffering
>in a whole new way and more than ever she was one of them.
>What a victory for the Kingdom. Suffering formed solidarity for her
>and the community. I am going to blog about it. She is going to
>rebuild it and has every intention of not giving up no matter what they
>do. She’s a rock solid women for Jesus! I was there with them the
>whole time and was able to see a servant of Jesus really love and
>suffer with these people. It is incredible what life is like here.
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