Church of the disabled

Hope Award | Minnesota's Christ for People leaves no one behind | Alisa Harris

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ANOKA, Minn.—Don Anderson was a freshman at Golden Valley Lutheran College when he offered God a challenge.

For weeks, he'd noticed a sign inviting college students to help with a ministry to the disabled. It took him back to the age of 13, when he was so keen on escaping the house that he volunteered at a home for the disabled, only to find himself uncomfortably paired with a boy who suffered from seizures and could only say a couple of words. Half the time the boy was sick, and the rest of the time communication felt impossible. Anderson was ready to quit until his Bible flopped open to James 1:27: "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this—to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." Taking it as a sign, he persevered (with little joy) through the rest of the year.

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