"The
church can be the church only as long as it goes on being the Body of
Christ.
Its mission will be authentic only so long as it is the mission of Jesus in the
new circumstances of history.
It is the church's duty in history to lend its voice to Christ so that he may
speak,
its feet so that he may walk today's world, its hands to build the reign of God,
and to offer all its members to make up all that has still to be undergone by
Christ."
-- Archbishop Oscar A. Romero
"Christianity
that isn't doing anything is dead."
-- Bishop Yvette Flunder
Cebu Rural Mission Scholar
Angelie Senarosa as she graduates from
Cebu Normal University, April 2007!
At Amistad we try to
take seriously the Great Commandment to
love God with
everything we've got, and to love our neighbors
as ourselves.
We believe the first
step in that direction is to spend
as much money on our neighbors as we spend on ourselves.
In that spirit, half of every dollar in the offering plate goes toward Mission.
In our almost-10 years as a community, we have prayed for, supported and
participated in the following
Mission projects:
-
Local Chapters of PFLAG and USARC/PACE
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In-kind assistance to families and individuals in crisis
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Care Bags for the Homeless