Victoria recently directed me to an interview published in "Christianity Today" between one of its staff members and Richard Sterns, current President of World Vision and author of a recent book entitled "The Hole In Our Gospel". I've included a hyperlink to that article here (below). I was initially drawn to the piece because of Mr. Sterns' personal testimony of God snatching him from a 23 year career in the corporate world to a mercy ministry that cares for others living in a world that is completely foreign to affluent America. And while that in and of itself is intriguing, what's even more staggering is that "... 26,000 children under the age of 5 die every day of causes related to their poverty." I hear and read these things from time to time, but they sort of become a number, a statistic if you will (sadly and ashamedly I must confess). Read the interview and you'll see how that statistic (one of Stalin's evil strategies to sensitize his atrocities) comes a little closer to life and home because of the way he characterizes the death of a single soul.
While I do not think that Jesus' gospel could ever have a hole in it because it's complete and sufficient in and of itself, I do believe that I (we as a Kruggel family) need to and can do more as a loving response of "faith-works" to the indescribable love Jesus has poured out to us. We only have but a little more than a widow's mite, but I'm prayerful that it will multiply into bag of gold, much like the few fishes and loaves that fed the thousands in the presence of Jesus 2,000 years ago.Prayerfully in Jesus,
Tom (& Victoria)
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