Jubilee Partners
Offering light in the darkness
Negative stereotypes lose their power and prejudice when people meet face-to-face and get to know each other, according to Don Mosley, a founder of Jubilee Partners, a Christian service community in Comer that has hosted close to 4.000 refugees from 35 countries since 1979.
"Jesus welcomed the stranger," Mosley points out, "and as Martin Luther King put it, ' Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
For the past few years, the majority of refugees at Jubilee have been from the Karen and Karenni ethnic groups in Myanmar (formerly Burma), and many of them have found a home in Madison county. "Comer has been a warm, welcoming community," Mosley says. "It works - when people get close enough the welcome mat begins to roll out."
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