Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017
Praying for Cesar
A few weeks ago I ate Mexican food with Doug, a friend of mine, in Selmer, TN. Selmer is a small town in middle TN. Perhaps fifteen years ago, that might have been an impossibility–eating authentic Mexican food in a small town in middle TN–unless you count Taco Bell as authentic Mexican food. But these days Selmer boasts three family owned Mexican food restaurants.
Doug introduced me to Paula, whose family ran this restaurant. They moved to Selmer from Mexico. Paula introduced us to her daughter, Jessica, an eighth grader, who helped around the restaurant. She introduced us to her son, Cesar, a senior. Cesar played football for the local high school. My friend Doug had taught both Jessica and Cesar in school. Cesar had recently been coming to the church Doug works part time for. A fellow teenager at school, a member of that church’s youth group, had reached out to Cesar and invited Cesar to start coming to church with him.Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017
Highland’s Women’s Minister, Lawana Maxwell, and I co-lead a class for adults on Wednesday nights called Quest. The class is designed to push adults deeper in their spiritual lives. As Lawana and I were preparing the curriculum, she suggested a compelling book she had read. It’s been a spiritually formative book for our class.