We are staying in a bed and breakfast called Adams Inn in a seemingly Latino neighborhood called Woodley park. Tree-lined streets, churches, and Mexican restaurants beautify the landscape here. We walk to the subway. This is a neighborhood devoted also to civic causes. we see youth centers and other intitutions devoted to helping the disabled, helping chilren, helping people in poverty. I wonder how we might be church in this place? What can we exegete from the culture around us here that might help our mission? Might we find time to talk with some local folks? I don't know. But I always hope to meet local residents and listen to them tell their stories.Just don't know if there'll be time.
Our room has three beds and we share a public bathroom, but we are about to go for formal breakfast at 8:00. This place is nice, except for the large cockroach we encountered last night.
This morning Richard Stearns from World Vision is going to talk about the goal of half in ten, reducing domesticc poverty by 50% in 10 years, something that President Obama is committed to.There is legislation on the hill that would theoretically create the culture to do this.
At 10:30 we are slated to hear from President Obama and this afternoon we will undergo some advocacy training for our day on capitol hill tomorrow.
last night's prayer by Clement of rome (C. 96)says:
"Lord, we beseech you to help and defend us. Deliver the oppressed, pity the poor, uplift those who have fallen, be the portion of those in need, return to yor care those who have gone astray, feed the hungry, strengthen the weak, and break the chains of the prisoners. May al people come to know thatou only are God, that Jesus Christ is your child, and that we are your people and the sheep of your pasture. Amen."
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