Sunday, September 25, 2016

Day four of the mission experience is a Sunday.  I was in the half of the group that worshipped at Ingleside Presbyterian Church.  Rev. Gordon has been working on a collage project for 30 years.  He has covered almost every inch of wall and ceiling in the church with images of heroes and heroines of the Civil Rights Movement as a cloud of witnesses to inspire his church family.  He also has a project to have students recite St Fransis of Assissi  every morning and evening.  "I am an instrument of Peace.  Where there is injury, pardon.  Where there is doubt, faith.  Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light.  And where there is sadness joy!  I shall not so much seek to be consoled as to console.  To be understood,as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that I receive and it is in pardoning that I am pardoned.  The service featured a beautiful soloist and a special blessing for a birthday of a one year old girl who has had a rough first year.  Our group joined the congregation for lunch.
  We toured around the city, Land's End National Recreation area, the wharf the Chinese Presbyterian church a bit of shopping and dinner at Chef Hung's cafe.

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