In this issue

FEATURES
8 The Ministry of Reconciliation
Carswell A. Leonard

10 Pentecost Reconciles
Lindsey Schreiber

12 Discernment Brings Unity
Stetson Harper

14 The Fruit of the Spirit Brings Reconciliation
Caleb Madara Dondo

16 Time to Lament
Dr. Elias Rodriguez

18 I Just Want To Be Seen
Dr. Wallace Pratt

DEPARTMENTS
20 Global Address
Sam N. Clements

22 Appointments

24 Children’s Ministries
Kathy Green

26 Global Missions
Dr. Cathy Payne

28 Stewardship
Barbara Holt

COLUMNS
4 Facing Forward
Sam N. Clements
Passion For Christian Unity

5 Connections Testimony

6 Prayer Ministries

7 Seven
Olivia Jones
Dragon Scales

31 Messages
Marsha Robinson
Strong In The Broken Places

The Ministry of RECONCILIATION

As I was doing research for this article, the following words written by Rev. Brian A. Tillman, chair of the Commission on Religion and Race in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church, leaped off the page as I was reading. “Reconciliation is not something we hold hands and pray for God to do — no Kumbaya. It is work that God has given to us to do.”1 This quote is instructive as we seek to understand what it means to engage in the ministry of reconciliation, particularly against the backdrop of the current global protests against racial injustice. Reconciliation is the work of the church.

4 mins

PENTECOST Reconciles

I know a man whose family moved to the United States from South Korea when he was elementary school age. He has vivid memories of feeling as if something had been torn away; an abrupt disconnection from the culture he loved and the life that made sense to him. He was replanted in a country, neighborhood, and school where everyone spoke a language he had not mastered. He was harassed and mistreated by the other children because he didn’t look like them.

6 mins

The Fruit of the Spirit Brings Reconciliation

To reconcile means “to cause to coexist in harmony; make or show to be compatible.” If we are to coexist in harmony with each other, we must walk in the Spirit so that we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The flesh wants to be in control. This leads to many people being incompatible. But there is a solution: the fruit of the Spirit.

6 mins

TIME TO LAMENT

Reconciliation through Mourning

4 mins

I JUST WANT TO BE SEEN

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’” (John 14:5–9 NJKV).

7 mins

Genereal Overseer's Global Address

Bishop Sam N.Clements July 11, 2020

5 mins

Kids can serve their world

Shaun McKinley International Children’s Ministries Director CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES

3 mins

One Child Fund

Indonesia Children’s Home

1 min

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The White Wing Messenger is a magazine striving to inspire Christian thought and practice as it imparts the "good news" of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the official publication of the Church of God of Prophecy denomination, which has a global membership of 1.5 million.