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At 6:30 a.m., two members of Westminster UCC climbed to the base of the church's bell tower and rang the historic bell 26 times to remember those killed in the Newtown shooting.
Westminster joined churches across the nation in this memorial.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
Thank you so much for doing this, Jon and Verne. Thank you so much for being with them and creating this moving tribute, Tracy.
god bless you all.
And thanks to Westminster for for being the only church in Spokane (that we know of) to do this!
Thank you Jon & Vern for commemorating this event with the though of connectedness in this fragile & sacred life.
from Kavala, Greece