Monthly Letter

I asked ORM Chapter Leader Evelyn Burkhard, who is overseas, to give us an update on her reconciliation work. I want to share her letter with you. My dear ORM friends, I am just back from one month in Burundi, where I was asked to help with the transformation of a Health Center into a…

Dear Reconciler Family, This letter was sent to me by Pastor Neil Earle, one of the top writers in our fellowship. He sent this civil rights document to me and I would like to share it with you. I found it fascinating! “A Healer from History” – Bernard LaFayette Speaks in Memphis By Neil Earle…

Dear Reconciler Family, Experience the necessity of WATER! Upon returning home from a trip with my wife, Jannice, I got a phone call from a neighbor who asked me if I knew I had a water leak. Of course, I had not known the bad news. Jannice and I made it to the front of…

Dear Reconciler Family, “Fighting on Two Fronts – A Tuskegee Airman Remembers.” This year, 2018 will be an important year in race relations with Memphis, Tennessee gearing up for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, which took place on Thursday, April 4, 1968. In that commemorative spirit, I asked Pastor Neil Earle,…

Dear Reconciler Family, Pastor, teacher and prolific writer Neil Earle and his wife, Susan, who was my secretary for some time, retired and headed back to Memphis, Tennessee. They both were instrumental in advancing the Ministry of Reconciliation. Susan’s home is Memphis, Tennessee and Neil’s is Newfoundland, Canada. They will be dearly missed! As we…

Dear Reconciler Family, What’s so great about Christmas? People from around the world observe Christmas. What’s so great about it? What’s the magnet that pulls people to it? What’s it all about anyway? Isn’t it Just another expensive holiday that forces us to spend money, often on undeserving people who make you feel guilty if…

Dear Reconciler Family, My wife, Jannice and I have a flower garden in our back yard and one on the side of our house. They produce beautiful red, pink, yellow and white roses. I love cultivating, watering and watching them grow. This time of the year they are still growing but will soon be dormant…

Dear Reconciler Family, The topic of this letter is: Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? I have been pondering this question recently after hearing about some of the devastating weather patterns that have wreaked so much havoc. There was the Houston flooding and the Florida flooding by Hurricane Irma in…

Dear Reconciler Family, As I picked up my Los Angeles Times newspaper today, the headline screamed out: CHAOS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE! “Plans for a right-wing rally blow up as white nationalists clashed with anti-racists in Virginia.” It went on to say 3 people were killed and 35 injured on a violence-filled Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where…

Dear Reconciler Family, Recently, while reading my devotional Our Daily Bread, I was struck by the stats on the size of some of heavenly bodies, noted by writer Sheridan Voysey. I immediately began to feel small, yet gratified. I will share some of the Daily Bread stats with you, in hopes that they will be…