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Story Three
Bible Story:

 

Share a story about how your congregation serves the blind, sick, lame, deaf and poor.

Listen to this story from Shatha Farah who shares her hope for those who suffer in the bombings. Shatha is in 9th grade and attends the Latin Patriarchate School in Gaza.

 

As the sun faded into the sea, leaving a sky filled with sunset colors in every corner of the heavens. The clock had stuck it is six o’clock and my house was calm, we all heard a new sound coming through our ears. We trembled and ran to the kitchen, we trembled and sat on the floor of our hall, watching the light of the bombs on the wall.

My father held me tightly, until the bombing was finished. Sometimes I wonder how many years are we going to live this way? Or are we going to live like this forever!

All I can do is keep on praying for the day when the rainbow of peace will appear in the sky once again, announcing peace after a tragic hurricane. I add to this saying that freedom will be here as long as the hope is living in us. So let’s keep the hope.


Family Response:


• How do we encourage and give hope to those who suffer?
• Write or draw a picture of peace, create a family peace collage
• What are the signs of peace in our household? In our congregation? In our community? In our country?
• Write a note to Shatha via Treasure Bear on the message board, www.episcopalchurch.org/jerusalem2000/treasure/mesgw.html


Matthew 11:2 - 11

When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or are we wait for another?"

 

What then did you go out to see?  Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are loyal places.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.

 

 What then did you go out to see?  A prophet?  Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me."

This is the one about whom it is written, "See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, nwho will prepare your way before you."

 

As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed shaken by the wind? Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.