This week, we had the opportunity to take a tour of Samaritan’s Purse. Their home base is just a few short hours from us in Boone, NC. However, the Heavy Lifting is done out of the BIG Operation in Greensboro, NC at the Piedmont Triad International Airport. This is just 20 minutes from my house.
For those of you who may have never heard of Samaritan’s Purse, they are a humanitarian organization, serving people in disasters, in Jesus name, across the globe. Many of you may be more familiar with this organization when I say the words, “Operation Christmas Child.” However, their PRIMARY mission, is flying all over the world with humanitarian aid. There are 28 air support vehicles, but the heavy lifters of the organization are parked right here in Greensboro, NC. They currently have 3 airplanes with the major story being the last operating Douglas DC-8 combi jet in the world, about to hit retirement, in just two months. The DC-8 is replaced by a Boeing 767 Freighter they just acquired in January. We can’t leave out the 757 Freighter, that is also in service. The rest of the SECONDARY, but very important air support fleet, is spread across the rest of the world, but is much smaller, typically small prop planes.
Like the Good Samaritan, We are called to be Servants to each other. This is the case in our marriages both man and woman together with honor, ALL. and our every day interactions with others. Samaritan’s Purse is an example of Servant-ship on a Grand Scale.
When we serve others, WE GIVE HOPE.
Luke 10:25-37 NIV
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
HAVE A FUN FRIDAY! This weekend: Go! And Serve Others!
