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Christmas Pageant at the Cathedral
I was in my first ever Christmas pageant a couple weeks ago, as part of the Cathedral’s pageant. I was a shepherd.
It was about the first Christmas pageant I can remember even remember seeing, and certainly the first one I had ever been a part of. I grew up Unitarian Universalist, and I suppose the [...]
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Pie
The Monday before Christmas, the youth group at the Cathedral braved the snow to bake pies for the Christmas party at Crosswalk, Spokane’s shelter for teenagers. The youth group has a tradition of engaging in service projects in Advent. Other projects this year were making Christmas presents and cards for shut-ins in the congregation and [...]
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Christmas Eve Dinner at Holy Trinity
On Christmas Eve, Holy Trinity had another dinner for its neighbors, with a Christmas party. We served dinner to a small army of volunteers and to somewhere between 45 and 65 of our neighbors. There were so many people walking around and coming and going that it was hard to keep an accurate count of [...]
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Who I Am
I’m Julia, the Watermark Intern of the Diocese of Spokane. I grew up in Silver Spring, a Maryland suburb of DC, and I went to Swarthmore College, in the Philadelphia area. I moved here for this internship in mid-August, and I’ll be here till mid-July. People often ask me whether I’d been to Spokane before [...]
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My Favorite Part of My Job
Actually I have several favorite parts of my job, but one of them is delivering fliers for Holy Trinity’s dinner ministry. We have a list of 19 social-service agencies to take fliers to, and I do most of the deliveries. I don’t have a car, so I ride my bike to all those places. [...]
