Peter Jonathan Renew

Faces of Compassion: -for a World in Need Peter Jonathan Renew

?Faces of Compassion? is a Biblical analysis of compassion; what it is and what it is not. Comparing Old Testament and New Testament models of compassion this book draws parallels to the present day from real-life events. Wherever people suffer, our Christian duty to service demands we work with compassion and understanding. I spent more than 18 years in which I lived breathed and went to sleep thinking about services for people with disabilities, and in particular those with vision loss and blindness. I was working at the front line of innovative programmes, long term strategic planning and major NGO collaborations, to drive down the number of people suffering blindness. My last successful campaign was to manage the restoration of sight to one million eyes in a three year period. The events and the experiences of this book are drawn from various times and places, in many countries of Africa and Asia. They did not always happen in this order, or even on the same occasion. A number of issues, events and circumstances have been blended to form a coherent whole. Identities of individual people have been changed to preserve privacy. In my work with suffering people, I was impacted to the core of my soul about the need for compassion. Unfortunately, compassion is not something you can buy in a bottle to immediately solve problems. It is not something that can be ordered from the warehouse of a disaster relief organisation or a social services department. You have to see life, feel it, and by a miracle of humanity find yourself involved intangibly in another person?s world. That miracle is a gift of God.