Gleaning #2965

Over Spring Break in March of 2006, 30 Chi Alpha stu­dents from Boze­man, MT trav­eled three days by bus to New Orleans to help peo­ple recov­er in the after­math of Hur­ri­can Kat­ri­na: “the most poignant moment came when a stu­dent, who is a rel­a­tive­ly new Chris­t­ian, walked into a ruined home and found a Bible still open on the kitchen table — where it has sat adhered by the orig­i­nal (and now dis­si­pat­ed) flood waters for months. ‘The Bible was opened to Psalm 90 where it says you are my dwelling place for­ev­er,’ Lant recalls. ‘That moment real­ly changed his life as he came to grips with the fact that earth was just a tem­po­rary res­i­dence … he now views things from a more spir­i­tu­al per­spec­tive, what’s most last­ing in his life and how tem­po­ral mate­ri­al­ism is.’ ”

AG News #1246: April 19, 2006

Over Spring Break in March of 2006, 30 Chi Alpha stu­dents from Boze­man, MT trav­eled three days by bus to New Orleans to help peo­ple recov­er in the after­math of Hur­ri­can Kat­ri­na: “the most poignant moment came when a stu­dent, who is a rel­a­tive­ly new Chris­t­ian, walked into a ruined home and found a Bible still open on the kitchen table — where it has sat adhered by the orig­i­nal (and now dis­si­pat­ed) flood waters for months. ‘The Bible was opened to Psalm 90 where it says you are my dwelling place for­ev­er,’ Lant recalls. ‘That moment real­ly changed his life as he came to grips with the fact that earth was just a tem­po­rary res­i­dence … he now views things from a more spir­i­tu­al per­spec­tive, what’s most last­ing in his life and how tem­po­ral mate­ri­al­ism is.’ ”

AG News #1246: April 19, 2006

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