The Projects by Mike
We spent our morning exploring the National Civil Rights Museum
in downtown Memphis. The site rests at the motel where Martin Luther
King JR was assassinated, and contains numerous exhibits detailing the
struggle for equality and freedom. The lessons we learned there were
made brutally clear in the afternoon, when we ventured into the
projects to hand out flyers.
The flyers advertised the evening, in which we have distributed second-hand clothes, shoes and toys to those in need. As we
watched people go pick out things that most of us would have thrown
away, two police officers approached me, curious about our work there.
When I explained our purpose in serving there, he said: “that’s great-
no one ever comes down here.”
Today we saw inequality and injustice and though we do not naively think we can heal years of damage, we can show the love of Christ in a tangible way that reaches across that barrier.