LU spring breakers do good
In more pleasant news, I just got an e-mail from Johnnie Moore, Liberty’s Campus Pastor and right-hand man to Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. Johnnie, a truly remarkable guy who has become a good friend in recent months, has been updating me regularly on his mission trips around the world.
This latest dispatch comes from Bosnia, where Johnnie and a dozen Liberty students have spent their spring break distributing food to the poor widows of slain soldiers and performing other humanitarian deeds, like holding a luncheon for Muslim women in honor of “Women’s Day” in Europe.
Johnnie writes:
Once a year a team of students pack their bags and sacrifice their spring breaks to distribute food, aid an NGO, and present the Gospel to a nation where professing Christians were guilty of heinous crimes against professing Muslims only a decade ago.
Now, there are myriad shades of professing Christians, but their faith doesn’t move much past their culture. Cultural Christians and Cultural Muslims have fought with their hands and their ideology since long before I was born. They have lost lives and made enemies of friends, and at points lusted over the destruction of each other.
We’re going to serve the Bosnians.
We’re going to distribute food and build relationships. We’re going to live the faith that we profess and hope that it catches on. We’re out to bring healing to this broken people.
This Spring Break, I’m with a dozen Liberty students on a mission to bring the message and the compassion of Christ to one of the last century’s most war-torn nations.
Say what you will about Liberty’s religious outlook, or about the practice of missionary evangelism in general, but it’s hard to overlook the fact that Johnnie and his band of Liberty students are doing what so many of us only talk about doing — leaving the comfort of home to help people in need. When I think about how I’m planning to spend my spring break — playing Guitar Hero in my sweatpants — it certainly puts things into perspective, and makes me wonder why I don’t do more in the way of reaching out. You don’t need a religious mission to do humanitarian work, but it probably doesn’t hurt, either.
What are you doing on spring break?
