Article February 4, 1985 Issue

Putting prayer to work in community service

BARBARA JUERGENS FOX

A project is proposed or we become aware of a need in the community, and we want to become involved and to help. But sometimes, after we've made the commitment, we wonder, "How am I ever going to be able to do this?"

For example, several years ago a federal court ordered our city to racially integrate all schools. After several years of implementing this court order, the school system assigned teams to visit individual schools and monitor the integration process.

I volunteered to serve on a team and attended an eight-hour training course. By the end of the day I tottered out, so to speak, overwhelmed by the volume of material I must assimilate. I wondered how I could observe all I must observe and then report on twenty-six pages of questions—in two short days "on site." (Other team members later confessed they also had felt this way.)

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