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GLN Staff Writer | globalleadership.orgPolitical Enemies Connect at the GLS in El Salvador
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Latin AmericaFor the first time ever, the GLS brought together two of the most unlikely of groups.
The GLS team in El Salvador invited members of both the Salvadorian guerrilla as well as members of the army to the GLS event last week.
Both groups said yes!
Not only did they both attend the GLS, they also shared lunch and fellowship together. This does not happen! They are normally enemies in the political field. But since they were invited, they had no choice but to attend and share the same table. Two of the people that were there were the people that signed the peace treaty. In the same room, were people from the opposition party.
What happened next was God at work.
From the political right and the political left, they sat together, talked, and even laughed.
Regional Leader for Latin America, Luis Pinto, took this opportunity to talk to them about Jesus Christ.
Even though the members of the guerrilla group are atheist, they were respectful to Luis while he talked about Jesus and the Summit values. “When I was sharing our values, they were impacted by our value to collaborate instead of compete,” Luis shared. “They said this would be a good value to bring between the government army and the guerrilla.”
Imagine what might happen if these two groups, normally enemies in the political field, were to collaborate for the better of society, rather than fight against each other? As a result these efforts to bring people together, we’ve begun to see division erased.
The GLS committee started a gathering for political leaders from various parties, including 157 politicians. They commented, “I need to learn how to forgive those who were my enemies.”
One politician asked to bring the GLS to the president of El Salvador, and the GLS committee is waiting for a date to make it happen.
Thank you for supporting and praying for the GLS in El Salvador. Who knows what the future outcome will be of this chance meeting between this army and guerrilla group. Only God could ordain such a meeting. Please pray the future of El Salvador.
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