[Magdalen] News

[Ginga Wilder]

Thank you, Susan+.  God bless your ministry and your parish.
Ginga

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM Suzie Buchanan <buchanan.suzie at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Our church has been contemplating this on a couple of different levels.  A
> couple of weeks ago (just after the inauguration and Bishop Budde's sermon)
> I was asked to pull the sermon out of the YouTube livestream and also post
> it separately, to help make our message more accessible.  The sermon video
> by itself is getting a whole lot more views than the livestream ever did.
> We have had a few new (and a few returned for the first time since COVID)
> people since doing that. We already have a midweek noon Eucharist.  And our
> Sunday morning Adult Forum has long been known around town as safe space
> and we regularly get people from other churches who come for that, and then
> go back to places like First Baptist for worship!
>
> I (with the knowledge of my Senior Warden) have given our hispanic cleaning
> crew express instructions to make use of the church building if need be for
> sanctuary.  They have a key, and their alarm code, and now they also have
> my cell phone number and are to call me immediately if there are any within
> the community who feel in danger.  They are to get them to the church and
> lock themselves in and call me.  My Senior Warden has my back on this and
> is my next phone call to get others en route to the church as well.  Our
> building might no longer be considered sanctuary, but we are determined to
> make it hard for it to be anything else.
>
> Suzie
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Some people are very anxious about the future of our country. Wondering
> if
> > there are new ways the church can be a safe haven for people. We have
> added
> > a midweek noon Eucharist and discussion group. I have not attended
> because
> > I am doing car pool line!
> >
> > Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
> >
>