Friday, October 09, 2015

Running for their lives – v5

Running for their lives
not migrants (language matters)
not seeking employment
but running for their lives
Fleeing from war, from poison gases
running for their lives
with the clothes on their back.

edited October 9, 2015
Running for their lives – v5


(editing original)
edited October 9, 2015
Running for their lives – v4
(editing version 3)
edited October 9, 2015
not the same God – v2
renamed October 8, 2015
starting with Abraham
October 8, 2015
not the same God
Matthew 25:31-46
John 13:34-35
and sermonette, thoughts
about the international refugee crisis
and our calling as Christians
Part 2 of 2 (with 4 minute gap in between)
by Sally Drew
(Sally has the real-world experience of running
a refugee camp in Singapore.)
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
September 27, 2015
&
edited September 15, 2015
Running for their lives – v3
(merging edits to original and version 2)
edited September 13, 2015
Running for their lives – v2
September 13, 2015
Running for their lives
refugees not migrants
fleeing the war in Syria
prayer concern lifted and
drafted at the Aroostook Cluster Meeting
Mars Hill United Methodist Church
September 12, 2015
&
NPR Ombudsman article
“'Refugee' Or 'Migrant': How To Refer To Those Fleeing Home”
by Elizabeth Jensen
August 21, 2015

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