What can you and I do to promote world peace? That may sound like a question in the Miss America pageant, but today we’ll learn about a rural Kansas community which took specific action to help a war-torn community halfway around the globe. That initiative began more than a half-century ago, and the relationship is being renewed again.
Brent and Charlotte Rundell live at Morganville, Kansas. They met at K-State and he went to work for a grain business in Morganville. While eating at the Morganville Cafe, he noticed a wooden picture carving with the words Feves & Morganville inscribed on the bottom. Older friends in his Bible study explained that it came from the time when Morganville adopted a city in France.
After World War II, a Methodist minister in Morganville encouraged the town to reach out to those in need overseas. The citizens of Morganville decided to adopt a European community which had been severely damaged by the war. A local woman named Velma Carson took up the cause.
In 1948, a vote of the citizens was conducted. The community they chose was Feves, France. There was no prior personal connection between the towns, but there was definitely a need.
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