Friday, July 19, 2019

Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook


The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer.

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Today in the Mission Yearbook: July 19, 2019

POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN BUS TOUR - The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis was delivering an impromptu sermon at the end of a long, hot day riding around Western Kentucky on a bumpy bus when she turned to the story of a leper who approached Jesus. “The leper said, ‘If you choose, you can heal me,’” Theoharis said. “‘If you choose, you can heal me.’

“Now, that leper had gone a lot of places up to that point. He went to the HMOs of his day, and they turned him away. He went to the hospitals nearby; they had closed down. But Jesus traveled around the land, opening up free health care clinics, never charged a co-pay. The leper said to Jesus, ‘If you choose, you can heal me.’

“The question before us this afternoon is: Do we choose?”

The capacity and resources are available to fix many of the problems that face Americans, she said. What’s needed is a movement ...

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