I've been considering something I heard last year at the CCDA conference. I went to a workshop and listened to a woman who was similar in many ways to myself: Suburban, white, married with 2 kids near the same ages as ours, and her role at her suburban church was very close to mine.
She had been spending a year in an inner-city neighborhood linking the neighborhood and her church, and she was feeling more and more called to move into the neighborhood. She and her family did move in about a year later, and she basically said this: "We prayed and we weighed...when we thought about the danger that everyone seems so concerned about, we began to ask ourselves, 'Which is more dangerous? Moving into the neighborhood or leaving our children in the suburban lifestyle we were living. We moved."
"The safest place to be is within the will of God." -Anonymous
hmmm.
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