The Impact of Discipleship
Ten years ago, a friend of mine who has a passion for racial
reconciliation and caring for the poor started informally discipling me and
told me to go to a seminar by Edward Gilbreath (author of Reconciliation
Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity). As I listened to Ed and heard other seminar
participants share their stories, my eyes were opened- there were whole
sections of Scripture and hundreds of verses about caring for the oppressed and marginalized in our society that I had not noticed in my church upbringing or
from reading the Bible on my own. Six and a half
years ago, my husband, Jason, and I chose to take positions with CSM as Co-City
Directors in order to continue exploring God’s heart for the poor, for racial reconciliation
and for justice.
As a CSM City Director, I appreciate getting to personally
learn more about issues that are near to God’s heart, while also providing an
opportunity for youth leaders of CSM trips to disciple their students while
they participate in ministry together through prayer and service. One way that I have been growing over the
last month is through reading Just
Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer
sharing true stories of people he has worked with and known. Bryan has helped me put many faces to the
statistics of Mass Incarceration in our county, one of the things we pray for
during our CSM Oakland Prayer Tour. He
has also convinced me further of the benefit of CSM groups investing in youth
in our cities and praying for these young lives long after the trip is over.
-Kim Foster, San Francisco Bay Area City Director
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