Being together allows us to share our concerns, our hopes, our visions, to lend each other a needed hand in carrying our individual and collective witness. Prayer opens the space for God to act in our midst. We feel that God is calling us to bring that space out to the world, to share with you and with everybody we might reach our concern for peace and our invitation to pray. Peace agreements have been reached in Yugoslavia and Kosovo. Still, real peace has yet to come to that region.
Peace still has to come to the hearts of people, to our communities, to every nation on earth.
In many places, injustice, oppression, and waste of precious resources continue to sow strife and violence. We have witnessed the tragedies of Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia and many others in the recent past. Sadly, more seem to be in the making. They ate, drank, got married, and were given in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.