Dear Ginghamsburg Family,
This Sunday, October 2 is Worldwide Communion Sunday. Take a good look at above image. The painting is entitled, “Hapag ng Pag-asa” (A Table of Hope) by Filipino artist Joey Velasco. I first saw this painting three years ago while visiting a Methodist church in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It shows Jesus eating not with his apostles in the Upper Room but with a group of street children in a nasty and dilapidated setting. They are not even eating at a table but on a huge delivery box used for cargo shipments. One child is holding a stolen bag. A girl and a boy are sitting on an empty iron container facing Jesus. I find myself in the skinny boy eating food scraps with a cat under the table. I am not one of the kids who struggle with dehumanizing poverty and oppression, but one who finds himself hungry under the table seeking spiritual crumbs.
