Kay Warren, wife of pastor and author Rick Warren told a Dallas audience that she initially considered AIDS a “gay, white man’s disease.”<\/p>\n
But her mind and heart changed about five years ago when she read an article about the AIDS crisis in Africa.
\nKay Warren, whose husband, Rick, wrote The Purpose Driven Life, said church congregants have the opportunity to be ‘the hands and feet of Jesus’ in the battle against AIDS.
\n“I was reading a news magazine about AIDS and read that 12 million children in Africa were orphaned from AIDS,” Ms. Warren said. “I didn’t know a single orphan’s name. I didn’t even know a single person with AIDS.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWarren told a group of minister’s wives that the story of the leper who came to Jesus for healing changed her outlook on AIDS and compassion.
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