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     Moving from place to place in America taught me many things. The picture of me, coming to America in June of 1995 with one suitcase and no money is placed against another picture of me next to a moving truck full of furniture and boxes with clothes eight years later, was way too embarrassing. I couldn’t believe it: I was becoming an American. I protested, I was ashamed, I was denying the fact that it was I, who collected all that stuff. But I had to admit the fact that the movers' semi-trailer was full of my stuff!

Sharif Abdullah  in his book Creating the World that Works for All paints an image of humanity as a sinking ship, where “salvation does not lie in acquiring more and more resources; it lies in getting off the vessel.”  This image can be easily applied to many Protestant churches.