In the book of Mark, it is recorded that when Jesus reached the bedside of Jairus’ daughter, she was already dead. Those in the house summoned him away, saying it was too late. Even so, he called out to her in Aramaic, “Talitha koum” — “My child, get up!” And she did.

This rising to life — it is that hope we offer to families in a pocket of deep poverty in South Waco