Lessons From the Mountain

PDA and Pacific Presbytery are here for long haul in Maui. And we are doing and will continue to do exactly that–listen, learn, coordinate, cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and accompany. It is the local community–not people from the outside–that recovers from a disaster. 

I am grateful for what I learned from the mountain today. Let’s listen and learn together over the next two weeks a quiet, humble, listening model of disaster response, following the Apostle Paul’s instructions in the book of Philippians: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 2:3-5

Rev. Heidi Worthen Gamble, Mission Catalyst, with Diamond Head in the background.