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An Episcopal Letter to the Texas Annual Conference Churches

by United Methodist News Service September 5, 2005

Dear United Methodist Brothers and Sisters

Resurrection Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I write to all of you this day to tell you that truly we “have seen the Lord” in caring for our sisters and brothers of New Orleans. A friend commented to me earlier this week, “It is in times like this that one can see the true soul of a people and an institution.” Your souls are surely shining.

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