My mind was whirling as I picked at my food at the
Ladies’ Brunch and listened to a teaching on Biblical
hospitality.
“The Bible talks about entertaining strangers…” The
woman told how God had given them a way to host
strangers. She read an impressive list of countries that
had been represented in their home in the past year.
Even the “hard to reach with the Gospel” countries had
been in their living room!
I love other cultures and countries. I wanted to witness
to people from around the world in my living room, too,
but hadn’t even known it was possible in our rural, Plain
Community. In other words, I was jealous.
As soon as it was convenient, we invited this speaker’s
family over for pizza. We were kind. They were kind.
And then we hit them with The Big Questions that ran
out of our mouths faster than we could phrase them
intelligently: “You host people in your homes from all
over the world and we want to do that too and is there
any way we can and how can we get involved and is there
a place for \