Cultivating Home
Sermon | January 24, 2021 |Social Action Committee
The pandemic has inspired in many of us a renewed appreciation for our homes as a place of safety and retreat. Most of us have been lucky enough to always have a place that shelters us from life’s storms. But what about those who do not have such a safe haven? Midland/Odessa has several chronically homeless residents. How can we support the dignity, health, and well-being of homeless men and women in Midland?
One local nonprofit, The Field’s Edge, seeks an answer to these questions by building a tiny-home community for the chronically homeless, which just broke ground in November. Founder John-Mark Echols will join us to speak about the organization.
The name of the organization is derived from Leviticus 23:22, “When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the Lord your God.” John-Mark reads this verse as a charge to love and serve our homeless neighbors selflessly.