Sometimes amazing connections are made, and you just know
that God’s fingerprints are all over it. If nothing else, it serves as a great
encouragement to us that God is active is the lives of His saints.
Last week, Pete met with an attorney at a big downtown law
firm; they had been connected by a personal friend. This attorney, a Christian,
has a passion for turning his law work into something more than a job; he wants
to treat it as his vocation. Christian
Legal Clinics of Philadelphia, he speculates, could be just the organization to
help him do that.
Having gone to school right across the river in Camden, New
Jersey, this attorney has a particular interest in serving that community – one
of the lowest-income and highest-crime cities in the area. Pete was so encouraged by this attorney who has a passion
for getting involved in ministry and
using his legal skills for the public good.
The very same week, Ted receives an e-mail via the CLCP
website – another enthusiastic attorney who wants to volunteer his time to
“give back” to the city. He was actively involved in leading the Christian
Legal Society chapter at his law school and, with significant private practice
experience under his belt he is poised and ready to jump in to serve! And get
this: he is only barred in New Jersey and New York, and he has particular ties
to Camden, New Jersey.
Hm! Could God be moving His attorneys to adapt the CLCP
model to the city of Camden? Ted and Pete experienced some similar "wow" connections while at a lawyers lunch in Delaware County (the county just west
of Philadelphia) last month. Christian attorneys we meet are getting excited
about copying CLCP’s model to “do justice” in the communities in need closest
to them.
And this is good!
