Archive for February 2009

Facing distrust

Feb 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Ministry

I never knew what Joe did, maybe he was a groundsman of some sort.  Rarely to be seen in the daytime, he would appear at the evening meal in the small basement room where he and the three volunteer staff sat around a plain wooden table.

He claimed  to be a devout Catholic, though his religious devotion seemed to consist mainly in a very peremptory sign of the cross before diving into his plate of food.

He never explained how he came to be working in the place, maybe the …