<font color='black' size='4' face='Times New Roman, Times, serif'><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Powerful story, Bob. Powerful: </span></font><br>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#202020"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fr. Isaac Poobalan has interesting
neighbours. He is the rector of St.John’s Scottish Episcopal Church in Aberdeen
and his congregation shares land with a Mosque. He talked about not being able
to unsee God.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"One
day,” as he said to a reporter, “when I was walking past the mosque, I found 20
or 30 people outside on the ground around the pavements with their hands and
feet exposed. You could see their breath. When I spoke to people at (my congregation)
about the situation, someone actually said to me this was not our problem, but
I had seen it with my own eyes, so it was a problem." <sup>3</sup></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#202020"> Can you imagine a Jew in Israel
building an Arab mosque? … Or a Palestinian building a Jewish synagogue? Or a
Hindu building a temple in Pakistan? These are questions posed by a Seattle
pastor. <sup>4</sup></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#202020"> But we respond to God – whether we
see God or another member of creation. Now, the Muslims in Aberdeen meet in St.
John’s for several prayer services every Friday. “</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">St John's Church also
opens its doors to people from a local mental health hospital every Wednesday.
Poobalan said some members of his congregation were reluctant to accept those
with mental health problems into the church, and later hesitant to accept
Muslim worshippers, but they were learning to ‘transcend’ such instincts.” <sup>5</sup></span></div>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#202020"> It’s compassion that brings healing:
the compassion of the centurion, the compassion of the local men and women, the
compassion of Jesus. Each had faith. They trusted in God. But, equally
importantly, they trusted in one another.</span></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What weighs in my thoughts now is the huge Somali refugee camp in Kenya that is to be closed this year. Indeed it has hatched some terrible terrorists. And the conditions are atrocious, but what will happen to the 350,000 people? </span></font>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-humanitarian-summit-kenya-somalia-idUSKCN0YE2E8?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=43c7dde81010dc70">http://www.reuters.com/article/us-humanitarian-summit-kenya-somalia-idUSKCN0YE2E8?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=43c7dde81010dc70</a></span></font></div>
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<div>Prayers and compassion are indeed needed for all these things. </div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Peace and blessings,</div>
<div>Joe<br>
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