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| Dr. Arloa Sutter, Executive Director |
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things One of the things I love about being in the Breakthrough
family is the wonderful people I meet. People like Ernestine Love and the board
members we have highlighted in this newsletter have left a lasting impression
on me and many others. God moves people in and out of our day-to-day
interactions, but their contribution and their legacy lives on in our hearts
and minds as we are inspired to keep up the work of the Kingdom, to right
wrongs and grow good while we have the life, time and energy that God gives us.
We are all just ordinary people, and yet together, our testimony to the work of
God grows and flourishes, like a giant tree planted by water.
When I was a child, one of the little choruses we sang was,
“This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.” We would sing about
shining our little candles, symbolized by our index fingers held proudly in the
air. We would shine our little lights throughout the whole world and not let
Satan blow it out. It wasn’t until a few years ago, that I learned that when
Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 that we should let our
lights shine before men, that they might see our good works and glorify the
Father in heaven, he used plural pronouns. “All y'all let your light shine" before men!
Now I am beginning to imagine, not just my little candle,
but a raging fire, a beacon of light, that looms over the horizon of the city.
We indeed become a “city set on a hill” when we shine together.
So we miss those who have been called to other places, yet
their fire has ignited ours and it rages on in the candles of the preschoolers
joyfully learning their alphabet in our Breakthrough Beginners Program and the young men who
have graduated from our after school programs and are working or studying and
learning how to be sons and fathers, and the women who have begun to dream that
their lives can be better than working the streets in desperation night after
night.
We are just ordinary people doing extraordinary things because
God has set us on fire!
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