AIDS COMES TO CHURCH
What about soul-winning with PWAs (prisoners with aids)? “Ministry that is offered with sensitivity and love speaks for itself and invites the trust of the patient in what is potentially a reconciling and redemptive relationship.”11 Amos says, “When I make myself available, patients raise spiritual issues themselves. They’re dying.” Bill Lindsey, Southern Baptist chaplain at an Alabama state prison unit which houses prisoners with HIV virus, said: “They are precious people, too.” Lindsey hugs the men. “It’s easy to tell a man you love him. You’ve got to show him.” Lindsey holds hands while praying with a prisoner and tells him, “God gets no pleasure out of watching a man suffer.”12 11 Ronald H Sunderland and Earl E. Shelp, AIDS: A Manual for Pastoral Care (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1988), pg. 38. 12 From “Inside an Aids Colony,” U.S. News and World Report, 29 January 1990, 20-26. From Church Administration, January 1991, by Sara Hines Martin, M.S., a counselor in private…
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