2000 GA00133 NCC chief says it's time for churches to step up their public-advocacy efforts by Evan Silverstein Robert Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Christ in the U.S.A., addresses the Presbyterian Washington Office Awards Dinner on Thursday evening. Edgar is a former member of Congress from Pennsylvania. Edgar, an ordained United Methodist minister, spoke at Thursday s Washington Office Dinner during the 212 th General Assembly. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.
Procrastination is still the thief of time.
Life often leaves us bare, naked and dejected, with lost opportunity. Edgar said some denominations are only now realizing how important such work is at this particular time, as the world grows more populated and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself. But each of us can work to change a small portion of events, so that in the total of all those acts will be written a history of our generation. The work of the local church in caring for the Earth and caring for the people who live on this Earth is critical and vital.