My new friend, Aaron, is an artist. I met him last week as he attended a mutual friend's wedding and stayed at our home with his wife.
He teaches art at an inner city school called Desire Street, located in the heart of New Orlean's most diverse and desperate communities. The Desire Street philosophy is to literally "snatch" 7th-12th graders from the streets and insert them into a new environment and to show them what thier lives can become with God's help and an education.
Aaron has a heart for inner-city kids and a theology background, and this talent to teach and paint.
Two days a week he will teach art at Tulane University,a well-respected insitution of learning attended by the other "end" of the economic strata.
He will literally be living in two worlds.
Here's what Aaron takes with him. God inhabits both worlds. And the architect of the universe--the Master designer of creation--can use Aaron's penchant for painting and translate it into something in both environments that can have an impact.
I was drawn to Aaron and his wife because they are passionate about this adventure.
Tell me something about the adventure to which God has called you.
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