"The plague of AIDS may be the worst disaster to sweep the world since Noah 's flood. Whole nations a being decimated. Every statistic shows that the plague is spreading faster a wider. We hear numbers bigger than we can comprehend, but we don't see the tears of children left without fathers or the cries of babies without mothers. Exhausted pastors go from one funeral to the next with little time to comfort the grieving and almost no time to prepare sermons."
"Funeral Fatigue", by Bob and Hope Charter,
"Agnes, one of our disciples trainers, told me recently that she had spent ten days going to funerals. (Going to a funeral means not only attending the burial, but also sleeping outside at least one night with the other mourners to comfort the bereaved family.) Agnes said that while they were burying a loved one, word would come that another had died, so the mourners simply moved on the next morning to the next funeral. After ten days of this, she just could not continue without adequate rest or seeing her own home. She broke tradition and went home after the tenth burial, realizing she could not live constantly with funerals and death. Actually, everyone here is suffering from funeral fatigue."
("Funeral Fatigue", by Bob and Hope Charter,
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