Two baptisms at Grace this morning. One a baby in arms, one about three years old. Beautiful Latino girls welcomed into the body of Christ . Lots of Latino friends and relatives. It seems like we, at Grace Episcopal Church in Norwalk, are burying many of our Anglo parishioners and baptising babies from young Latino families.
When Grace Church merges with Iglesia Betania we will be more Latino than anything else. Our priest, Lois, is learning Spanish to better serve the Latino faction. A handful, a small handful, of us are trying to learn Spanish in an effort to show our good will. I put it this way because I am so slow to learn and will probably never really get to be able to speak it very well -- but I try. Others are doing better. Lois is doing VERY well. In fact today she is filling in for the Betania priest missioner and celebrating at their one o'clock service.
At three-thirty a delegation each from Betania and Grace will do a walk-through of the entire Grace Church plant that we now share. There is much needed work to do. We will list the needs, prioritize, and formulate a plan to do the work.
This is one way that people from different cultures and individual backgrounds can learn to be together peacefully and harmoniously in the love of Christ.
