What's So Blessed About Being Poor?: Seeking the Gospel in the Slums of Kenya

by Susan Slavin

Overview

Two lay women who have chosen to live among the poor in East Africa, one a Maryknoll lay mission, and the other, a New York attorney who left her law practice to become a lay mission with the Franciscans—minister to the poor in Kenya.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626980556
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: March 12, 2010, Nairobi, Kenya 1

1 "Mama Coralis" Salvador, August 2008 13

2 Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor but Determined 25

3 Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor but Truthful 53

4 Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor but Have Spirit 75

5 Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor but Hardworking 101

6 Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor but Have Dignity 127

Epilogue: "To Everything There Is a Season" 151