Wednesday, May 26, 2021

interesting decoration

 On Sunday our youngest pastor was ordained so now she's a Rev.  After the ordination service there was a reception.  That in itself is not surprising but it was the first real reception at our church in 14 months.  A few times they handed out wrapped cookies but that really shouldn't count as a reception.  At Sunday's reception we had little sandwiches and veggies and dips and cupcakes and actual coffee to drink, bliss!  However, there was one mystery at this reception that wasn't answered for me until today when I read the explanation in a Facebook post.  Leaning up against the walls all around the large dining hall were large, I mean really large (about 8 feet by 12 feet? maybe larger), pieces of plywood painted with slogans and flowers and various designs.  I thought maybe these panels were decorations for our children's art camp which is coming up in two weeks, but I couldn't figure out the theme.  Today I found out that these panels were actually the plywood covers put up over windows down town during the demonstrations last year.  Once they were hung on the buildings various street artists painted the symbolic decorations on them.  I'm not sure how our pastor came to possess these, or borrow them, but they were really quite effective.  I think she wanted them because they represented what was happening in Fort Wayne when she first came here.  It has been quite a year.

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