Pray for your Children

When Mother Teresa first began her work among the dying on the streets of Calcutta, India, government officials and orthodox Hindus were suspicious of her motives, and tried to stop her good work.

Mobs threw stones as the women tried to bring the dying to their humble shelter. One day, Mother Teresa dropped to her knees. "Kill me!" she cried in Bengali. "And I'll be in heaven all the sooner." But the crowds continued to demand that the officials expel the foreign nun in her white sari, wearing a cross around her neck.

One day, Mother Teresa noticed people standing around the body of a Brahmin priest. No one would touch him, because they realized he was dying from cholera.

Mother Teresa bent down, took the body of the Brahmin priest in her arms and carried him to her shelter. Day and night, she cared for him, and over and again the pagan priest told the people, "For 30 years I have worshipped a god of stone. But I have met in this gentle woman the real God, a God of flesh and blood." Never again were stones thrown at Mother Teresa and the other sisters.

Since 1944, Fred Jordan Mission has been on the streets of Skid Row, sharing the love of God, as shown through His Son, Jesus Christ, who gave His life to pay the penalty for our sins and restore our relationship with the Living God!

I need your help to share this Good News at this Mother’s Day. I would write your first name in a beautiful Mother’s Day card for a lonely mother here in the inner city, telling her that you are praying for her. (No address, of course).

If you will pray, please go to Fred Jordan Mission’s secure website, FJM.org, and charge your Mother’s Day donation to your credit card, or donate through EFT. Or mail your donation check to me, Willie Jordan, PO BOX 12345, Covina, CA 91722.

There has been a 55% increase in homeless women over three years here on Skid Row, and these women are particularly vulnerable to physical and sexual attacks on the streets. Please help me share God’s love with these precious women this Mother’s Day.

Blessings,

Willie Jordan (Mrs. Fred Jordan)