I want to start the talk in prayer.

Okay?

So in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Heavenly Father, we ask that you would pour down upon us the grace and the gift of your Holy Spirit

to kindle in our hearts the fire of your love and illuminate our minds with the light of your truth

so that in all things we may be docile to your spirit,

in the imitation of your son, to the glory of your name. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Okay. I want to begin by painting a portrait of four

brown undergrads who make a pact.

And their pact is that after graduation, they are going to engage in the hard work of social justice.

So, since I'm not going to go into a whole bunch of detail, think of it more like a silhouette

than a portrait.

Our first Brown undergrad, Randall.

Randall, upon graduation, moves to Guatemala.

And while he's serving and ministering in Guatemala, he decides that he's going to start

a non-profit organization that has the unique purpose of raising money to purchase

Finca's.

So in Guatemala, they have this Finca system, which Finca is a plantation.

And so it's a very large plot of land. And the idea of the nonprofit is to raise money, to purchase Finca's, in order to then

redistribute the land to the indigenous Maya. Because if you don't know a lot about the history of Guatemala,

for hundreds of years, the indigenous Maya have been treated as at best indentured servants

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