Recently, Second member Earl Blankenship knew he needed to quickly organize people in his Sojourners CC to pray and help after he was told by fellow member Frank Jemison one day about a Ugandan family at Memphis's Le Bonheur Children's Hospital and then contacted the next day by one of Second's missionaries, Rev. Johnson Twinomujuni, about the same family.
That family — Medad and Connie Birungi and their 6-year-old son, Jonathan Jabez — had traveled to Memphis to have Jabez treated for a complicated brain tumor.
Earl gathered details and sent a passionate email to the Sojourners, asking for their prayers, and then turned over his concern for the family to God, who motivated an army of helpers. Without any structured effort, people in the class began to reach out to the Birungi family by visiting them, praying, taking Connie shopping for necessities, providing warm clothes and toys, and taking food.
Two weeks ago, after celebrating a hugely successful surgery to completely remove the tumor (in addition to being told it was benign), the Birungi family visited the Sojourners class to personally thank the army of volunteers who helped care for them during their time in Memphis. They were able to return home to Uganda yesterday.
This display of generosity by the Sojourners class (including others from Second and area churches) is proof that love can be felt anywhere when it is love of God.
- Worship
Music at Second
Our Sunday Morning Worship times are 8:15
and 11:00 am in the Sanctuary. Sunday Evening
Worship is at 6:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall.
