Today we also have an opportunity to nourish the seeds of hope and resurrection in El Salvador, where an earthquake has dealt a devastating blow to the fragile democracy that was developing there after the civil war. Our mission trip there planted seeds of hope in two of our own young people, Erica Lloyd and April Sizemore-Barber. The rest of us need to remember that too. Resurrection did indeed turn the ancient world upside down. It was a radical and bizarre message, carried by unlikely people to a disbelieving world.
Resurrection is a cry of renewal, a call for justice and right relationships.