In November 1998, in the wake of Hurricane Mitch, Dr. George Greene III, his wife Molly and a small team of volunteer employees from General Engineering Laboratories crossed the washed out roads of Honduras into a small town.
They pulled into a community carrying the first-ever Living Water Treatment System on the back of a pickup truck.
Hidden among a handful of family photos in Andy Savage’s office sits a small, wood picture frame on a corner table. In it rests a copy of Savage’s 1972 New York City cabbie license.
“It’s the only diploma I have in my office,” said Savage. “You won’t see a high school diploma, a college diploma, law school diploma, bar, anything.”
Last month, when Time magazine published private letters from Mother Theresa, letters confessing her doubts about God and His existence, unlike so many who were bewildered, Seacoast Church senior pastor Greg Surratt understood.
Racism can be expressed in a word, a choice, an action or expression, even in a person’s body language.
It would be easy to leave it at that and move on – but that’s the difference between understanding the essence of racism by definition and what racism is as one who has experienced the raw, painful reality of it.
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