A part of the world’s healing

Sermon by guest preacher Pearl Hoover. In the third sermon of a series on healing, Pearl, a graduate of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and a former pastor of the Northern Virginia Mennonite Church, related three stories, two from the Gospels and one from her own experience. From the story of Jarius's daughter as found in Mark and the one of the bleeding woman, Hoover illustrated how we wait for Jesus for our healing. "Do not fear, only believe," Jesus told the woman. In the story of Tom Fox, the Christian Peacemaker Team worker who lost his life as a hostage in Iraq and whom Hoover befriended, she related a moving story of Fox, who only had his hands free for 20 minutes a day,using that time to rub and pray for his guard's swollen foot. "When we are healed," she said, we are called to bring healing to others."