Author: Rev. Bernie Seter

One of the arguments against mercy work is that I cannot define misery. “Whenever love meets misery, mercy is awakened.” said Wilhelm Loehe. If I cannot define misery than I must allow those who I believe are suffering to define...

The criticism is raised that we see misery where there may not be any.  People that we think are miserable are used to their situation and really are quite happy.  My judging something as miserable does not make it so. If I am...

Our Lord Jesus “for the joy set before Him endured the cross and despised the shame”.  Christ’s patient endurance is the great example that Christians should follow.  We may not be able to do it perfectly but if joy is “grace...

There are those who believe that doing mercy work overseas does nothing but make fat happy American Christians feel good about themselves. “Grace removes guilt, mercy removes misery.”[1]  Out of purely divine grace God removed...

I wrote in my report to the Synod in 2016 about Human Care and our church these words – “the churches corporate life of mercy is not a complimentary frill that can be added on or taken off depending on the exigencies...