Met with St. Bede’s Pastor David Tokarz in Montgomery, Alabama today. He said his church has recently established a Sister Church project with a Black Baptist Church in rural Hayneville, Alabama. It started when First Baptist Church sent out a financial plea for one of it’s congregation members. A mother of three was dying of Aids and the church was trying to move the family in with a grandmother in the area so there was a continuity after the mother passed. The money was needed to build an addition onto the grandmother’s home, and St. Bede’s rallied to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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