Pedro Claver

His life story haunts me! If you don't know anything about his life, you need to do some research on him ASAP! I am thinking about writing about him more once I have some time. He was a Columbian in the early 1600s who ministered to black slaves arriving from Africa. He buried the dead properly, he took care of sick slaves with leprocy, he shared the gospel message with slaves, and he fed and clothed many. He finally died of an illness that he caught from working with slaves his whole life. He was rejected by the powerful religous establishment because they thought he was unintelligent, and his theology was upside down (they thought the powerful came first). God still used him in might ways to care for the poor despite lacking the support of his religous superiors. I learned from him that it is good to persevere in a calling even if it makes no sense to people who are in power. God calls all of us to serve in areas of extreme brokenness, even if it is unpopular to the mainstream Christian establishment.