“True community is the recognition that every human face is the face of a neighbor. It’s making the effort to see each person as having a face, a name, and a story — a story of disappointment and brokenness, of possibility and hope. It’s admitting that we may not know someone, and having the humility to step out of our comfort zones to give it community try.”
Perry Engle, bishop of the Midwest and Pacific Regional Conferences of the Brethren in Christ Church U.S., from his Parting Words column, IN Part magazine, Summer 2014