Racial Transformation

Under my previous, urban ministry, our Church saw a racial transformation. I often heard it said that it was a miracle. When I started my ministry in 1994, we had one Black office-bearer in the Church. When I resigned in 2013, the majority of office-bearers were Black. Many Sunday services, too, were majority Black.  And the minister had a Black wife. Among other things. As a Congregational Church, all of these office-bearers were put in place by the congregation. Or by the Holy Spirit, we would say. All in all, therefore, it was a complete mix of White and Black. OBSERVATION: I joked with my late wife Mirjam: "No politician would have survived such a transformation!" She said: "We are walking a very fine line!" (By Black I mean "Black" in the American sense of the word, for example: "We have a Black president.") See also A Unique Church.