“The worship of God in which they joined was, by the violent contrast to all else in their lives, at once a vindication of the other-worldliness of their faith and an implicit condemnation of the filthy environment amid which the social sin of an acquisitive and complacent ruling class had condemned them to live.”
Maurice Reckitt on liturgy in the slums

This week, on at least three nights, members of St Timothy’s spent the night at Samaritan Ministries downtown.  On Thursday night, the group included four of your ministry staff.  We arrived at 6pm, received our instructions, served beef stew and rice, chatted with the men, cleaned up, had a devotion at 10pm, and then we all took turns watching the security monitors for two hours during the night.  For all the nuts and bolts and more, go to Samaritan’s website.
This was the second time I’ve been to Samaritan this year …