THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
Pastor Scott Camp of Faith Fellowship in Orange, California sent in the following story which brings out one of the most important aspects of the transforming power of friendship. It goes this way: As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them and generally living the life of a 20th Century Indian. The old grandmother of the family spoke no English at all, yet a very close friendship formed between the two. They spent a great deal of time sharing a friendship that was meaningful to each, yet unexplainable to someone else. In spite of the language difference they shared the common language of love and understood each other. Over the months he learned a few phrases of Navajo and…
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