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Isaiah 58:10
Christian Standard Bible
10 and if you offer yourself to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted one,
then your light will shine in the darkness,
and your night will be like noonday.
Chris Oberg has been our lead pastor for 13 years. This is a
long time for an Adventist pastor to remain at the same church. But where could
she go? This church is one of the largest churches in the South-Eastern
Conference of the Adventist Church. Most other conferences are not hiring
female pastors.
She has long fought for the acceptance of women as equals in
the sight of God and especially in the the church. One would expect that, of course, because of
her gender. She has become more and more interested in helping the unfortunate,
the discriminated against, the impoverished in our community. She took in the LGBTQ+ community
and created a place for them to worship and be accepted. She assigned a pastor
to foster a separate building for health and wellness.
Chris resigned her post as lead Pastor of the La Sierra
University Church to promote the cause of the less fortunate in our Riverside area.
The last count of homeless in Riverside County found 2,884[2]
individuals. There are many more who are desperate for the bare necessities of
life.
Now with this new move, she should be fulfilling the
prerequisites of this promise in the book of Isaiah, and we should see her
career blossom and her fame grow. Her work should become known everywhere, even
in the dark places of this world. Go for it, Chris!
We pray for God’s guidance in pursuing her new mission.
We also pray for the choice of a new pastor for our church!
