Is The World Getting Better Or Worse?

Recently our church put on a community fund raiser to raise money for the local fund bank, the local hospital and a local institution helping seniors. Well it was being set up 2 teenagers that are part of the Islamic refugee family our church, along with other Christian churches had sponsored, helped to set it up.While they were there they started talking to a woman setting up a booth who expressed sorrow for what they had gone through and what had, and what is happening, to their country. (Syria) Then they found out that she was from Israel and that she was Jewish. These Islamic kids were completely shocked as they had believed that they were hated by Jewish people. It was a real revelation to them.The kids went home and told their father about all of this. Their father then contacted our church group to find out the phone number of this woman so that he could invite her over for dinner.All this happened at an event sponsored by a Christian church. Jesus' way is about building bridges - not walls.

I think that a lot of us born in western democracies such as Canada or the Excited States found ourselves born at third base and then think we got there by hitting a triple.