Jesus Tomb
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I met a man recently who is a preacher in Mexico City. He also heads up a ministry to 2 million people who live in the largest public dump in Central America.
One Saturday as he was preparing a sermon, his neighbor knocked on his door. This preacher (his name is Saul) opened his door to find the man weeping. Saul invited him in, and soon found out that the guys' marriage was falling apart. Saul then spent the rest of the afternoon speaking with the couple; at the end of their time, they decided to keep trying, having learned much about themselves and how they'd been making mistakes as a couple.
The man asked Saul if he was a Christian. Saul said yes. The man asked again if he was a preacher, to which the reply was also a yes. The couple said that they would very much like to visit his church the next day. Saul tried to dissuade them, saying that it's in a dump, it's very crude, there weren't even any real walls. This however only piqued their interest, so Saul relented and said he'd be glad to see them there.
The next morning, just as church was starting, a local man came running in breathless, saying that a disaster had just happened and he needed help. The congregation followed him, to find a road curving sharply downhill from the dump that had an enormous new hole in it. The road had caved in, revealing a cavern where a large sewage pipe had burst. A river of shit was running downhill into an area thickly populated by poor people.
Apparently the Mexican govt. had packed the area in with sand, built pipes and streets over it all, and sold the land to the poor of Mexico City.
Bewildered, they asked among themselves what could be done. Saul's neighbor came forward, and told them that he was a mining engineer. He might be able to help them.
Through a system of sandbags and levers, they eventually filled the hole and sealed the pipes back together. By this point the day and night had gone, it was about 5 AM when they finished. All the men were covered in shit from head to toe. The women hosed them all down back at the church, and they all went home exhausted but relieved.
Saul gets up every day to this kind of life without expecting any sort of earthly reward. He is one of the most content and joyful people I have ever met. A true man of God. There are too few like him.