Dave Buerstetta on striving to do justice and love others while walking humbly with God
Last summer, Woodridge UMC youth and leaders (including me) traveled to McLaughlin, South Dakota, in the middle of the Standing Rock Reservation. That was usual, commonplace, expected. We take a trip like that every year. What none of us predicted was how significantly we would be impacted by that trip. The second night we began …
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I never quite know how to encapsulate all that happens on one of our mission trips. There is just so much that happens: tine in the vehicles there and back, staying at churches on the road there and back, inside jokes, inside disputes, conversations that cannot be reconstructed let alone shared, insights shared in confidence, …
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All That I Can't Leave Unsaid 