Befriending: lending an ear
Nicola Morrison, editor of the Evangelical Alliance, explains why something as simple as a phone call can make all the difference.
I never thought I could build a friendship and sustain one for years, with someone I had never met, and that I only spoke to for around an hour a week. How could I connect with someone that I had limited information about, didn’t know what they looked like and didn’t even know their last name? Were all questions I once thought about before becoming a ‘befriender’. Little did I know, God was about to show me how...
During the pandemic, I, like most of us, was moved by the many stories in the daily news cycle of the elderly and the elderly disabled, being isolated and lonely, as government restrictions were...
That was three years ago now.
Since then, I have befriended many friendees, including Beatrice*, Olive* and Len*. Sadly, I have lost some friendees too along the way, which is inevitable but doesn’t stop it from being hard....
