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With skyrocketing mental health crisis, church proves the healthiest place to be
With skyrocketing mental health crisis, church proves the healthiest place to be | Monday, December 28, 2020
Churches around the San Diego region prepared for a Christmas like no other as the coronavirus pandemic surges, filling up hospital beds and driving unemployment.
Rather than choirs belting out Silent Night to packed pews, many congregations planned modest outdoor gatherings and live-streamed services.
It’s been particularly tough for the largely Sudanese and Congolese congregation at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in North Park. Since the spring, about a third of the 200-family congregation has grappled with job loss, many struggling to pay rent and relying on food donations. At least one person contracted the coronavirus.
However, the church, its members and a nonprofit partner, RefugeeNet, have pulled together over recent months to support the most vulnerable members of the congregation, many of whom work in high-risk settings such as hotels, nursing homes and casinos. They’ve helped fellow churchgoers fill out unemployment forms, driven them to doctor’s appointments, ev
12-20-2020
COMMENTARY
If you haven t heard it already, you will soon the velvety voice of Perry Como singing There s No Place Like Home for the Holidays. Even though it was released in 1954, it still shows up on lists of favorite Christmas songs. And why not? Wherever Christmas is celebrated, making it home for that celebration is a universal theme.
I can prove it. Some of you may be like me old enough to remember the Folgers coffee Christmas commercial from 1985, which was reprised in 2009. The theme was clear: Nothing says Christmas like family making it home in time to be together okay, and having a cup of coffee to start the day.
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