BERLIN — A member of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church called to tell the administrators of the Berlin Elementary School that they had $500 to spend in support of the students
Churches take part in labyrinth day
Three McMinnville churches will take part Saturday, May 1, in World Labyrinth Day, an annual event sponsored by The Labyrinth Society.
The idea is for people around the world to “walk as one at 1” 1 p.m. local time. According to the Labyrinth Society, this will “create a rolling wave of peaceful energy across the globe.”
Labyrinths are structured paths that follow the longest possible route from the perimeter of a circle to its center. While they may resemble mazes at first glance, local church representatives said they are actually the opposite: Mazes are all about confusion, while labyrinths are about finding your way and focusing on what’s really important.
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GREENSBORO â The morning after, Minerva Cisneros Garcia went to Kohls.
âI looked around and walked around smiling like crazy,â Garcia said of browsing the aisles of her favorite store that day in 2019. âI remember a few people looking at me like, âAre you OK?â â
The Winston-Salem mother of three had 24 hours earlier stood before a federal immigration judge in Charlotte in what is considered one of the toughest courtrooms in the country for appealing deportation orders.
Garcia, who is originally from Mexico, had taken sanctuary in a church to avoid being deported. She followed in the steps of Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, the Asheboro seamstress originally from Guatemala who in 2017 became the first person in North Carolina to seek sanctuary from U.S. immigration officials at a church.
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