This blog is another in my occasional reports about the kind of cases we are handling. Your continuing generosity sustains us as we advance this vital work.
Since March 14, 2020, when covid hit and the quarantine started, we have received more than 300 new requests for legal and financial help — requests that we recognize as social symptoms of the virus just as surely as a pulmonologist recognizes shortness of breath as its physical symptom.
So what can we as a church — and what can we as individual Christians — say and do in response to the death of George Floyd, the resulting outrage and demonstrations, and the looting and burning by a minority of the protesters? There is at the core of each of us a presence of God that abhors this racism, injustice, and oppression — and will bring us out of it together.
With the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 comes escalating cases of child and domestic abuse. With your help, MJM’s critical work to meet these urgent legal and protective needs likewise steps up to meet basic needs and help ensure that the most vulnerable women and children do not become even more vulnerable when times are tough.
This enforced time at home, separated from work and from daily routines and pleasures, has led to some reflection on my part on the random suffering and death caused by the coronavirus. Where is God in all this?