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Serving Serving By Faith Hoyt
When we reach out, empathize, and express care, we tap into God’s love, weaving it into our relationships. More than ever, people need to experience this empathy, this love, when we minister to them.
8 Pacific Union Recorder
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recently asked my friends on social media to share what they learned about service and outreach in 2020. The first response was an encouraging reminder: “That it can still be done under social distancing conditions.” One friend shared, “It's personal now, not just collective. It is me reaching out to the people in my own neighborhood.” Another expressed, “I can go beyond what I thought I was capable of to reach others and serve where I am called or needed.” (This last statement was shared by a frontline worker for a small hospital in Stanislaus County, Calif.) The responses as a whole give me a picture of our experiences in 2020 and how the crisis expanded our understanding of and challenged our approach to serving others.
