World Neighbors changes the world one community at a time

World Neighbors, an Oklahoma City-based nonprofit, helps communities in remote and impoverished parts of the world identify and solve problems.

 
BY KEN RAYMOND | Modified: November 23, 2012 at 8:24 pm | Published: November 25, 2012   

John L. Peters stood before the congregation at St. Luke’s Methodist Church with no idea what to say.

Earlier in the week, he’d penned a proper sermon, but held in the grip of a conviction greater than his own, he’d tossed it out a few hours earlier. He felt compelled to speak the truths he’d learned as a military chaplain during World War II … but what would come out? Would anyone understand?

photo - Charles Blackwood World Neighbors  participant
Charles Blackwood World Neighbors participant

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In the Philippines, he could say, he’d held a young soldier he knew in his arms, feeling him shake and shudder as life and blood gushed from a fatal chest wound. Kneeling in a filthy foxhole...
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