‘Blessed are the flexible’: Clark County faith leaders reflect on pandemic, hopes for the future By Scott Hewitt, Columbian Arts & Features Reporter
Published: April 4, 2021, 6:00am
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17 Photos Blue lights illuminate a rocking Palm Sunday service and reduced-capacity congregation at Crossroads Community Church. (Taylor Balkom/for The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Rabbi Elizabeth Dunsker can see everybody’s mouths moving, but the only singing she hears is her own.
That’s a lonely sound when you’re in the people-gathering business, said the spiritual leader of Congregation Kol Ami, Clark County’s largest Jewish temple. She has been leading Friday night worship services online over Zoom in the year since the pandemic curtailed gathering in person.
Annette Nettles: Washougal pastor draws on experience, focuses on love, unity
Published: February 7, 2021, 6:00am
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6 Photos Pastor Annette Nettles has been a senior pastor for five years, leading Love at the Cross, a small congregation that meets in Washougal. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Being the only Black person in the room is nothing new to Annette Nettles, pastor of Love at the Cross, a small congregation in Washougal.
Nettles’ own relatives are often the only Black faces she sees as she looks out across her tiny flock of 21 members.
It’s not that Nettles is unaware of the differences between herself and her white, mostly older congregants. It’s that she feels called to overcome those differences and help others see how to overcome them, too.