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[Marilyn Cepeda]

Impressive!  I hope there are many more like you and your church.

Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda


On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> > >
> >
>