I first read this article two years ago, and just reread it. Wow. So powerful. So I wanted to share it with you!
Steve Hawthorne: Christian subversives in Yawisla
Here’s one of my favorite parts:
We see it every day in demeaning, oppressive interactions among people who have internalized negative, debilitating lies learned from a social system built on age-old inequities and untold bitterness. What to do? Our option has been to be subversives…
But beyond imparting new skills, they focus on building new values in the girls; values that lead in transformational development, such as TRUST. “Trust” is the expectation that people and groups will behave reliably and honestly, that we can count on each other.
With our kids, we see this too. It is difficult to build trust with them when so many of them have been deceived over and over again. But with God, all things are possible!
Please pray for our teachers to be subversive… for God to work through them and turn over the foundation of abuse, abandonment, and distrust, and to build a new foundation of unconditional love, grace, and mercy.
Much love!
Laura
















