Saturday, June 3, 2017

Goats hired to clear Utah church’s weedy lot become unexpected evangelism tool

From ENS-

The Rev. Mary Janda has new perspective on Matthew 25:33. If God is to separate the righteous from the cursed like sheep from goats, Janda’s recent experience at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in West Valley City, Utah, has gotten her thinking Matthew was a bit unfair to the goats in destining them for eternal punishment.

“I mean, give the goats a break,” said Janda, the vicar at St. Stephen’s.


Janda is not alone in her newfound affection for these biblically maligned animals. She, her congregation and its neighbors spent nine eventful days in May getting to know a flock of 108 goats – give or take a few, due to one death and three births. The goats proved surprisingly useful in taming the church’s field of weeds, when they weren’t escaping and getting into mischief in the neighborhood.


More here-

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2017/06/02/goats-hired-to-clear-utah-churchs-weedy-lot-become-unexpected-evangelism-tool/

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