“I hope you come to find that which gives life a deep meaning for you; something worth living for – maybe even worth dying for; something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep moving ahead. I can’t tell you what it might be – that’s for you to find, to choose, to love. I can just encourage you to start looking and support you in the search.”
––Sister Ita Ford, M.M.
Excerpt from a letter written to Ita’s niece and godchild – Jennifer Ford, on her sixteenth birthday, three months before Ita was tortured, raped, and murdered, along with fellow missionaries Maura Clarke, M.M., laywoman Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, O.S.U. They were killed in El Salvador by members of a military death squad on – 8/18/80
Join us this morning in worship as we seek to encourage one another to start looking and support one another in the search. I am? a three-week worship series on vocation, ambition, and purpose continues today at 10:30 am. The Table at CentralUMC. The Evolution of Church
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