Never Forget, is what we say about 9/11
What I will never forget is my friends all going downtown in Cleveland to give blood….us walking around hugging complete strangers during what was a the 2nd week of college 1/3rd of whom came from NY. I remember my friend Alex emailing his parents (which was totally weird way to communicate in an emergency back then) and people offering cell phones (much rarer then) to help Mark and others call home. I remember the school office being open 24hrs for landline calls which were so much more dependable then. I remember Glenn was driving people downtown to give blood, and helping to find places for people to go using his cars. I remember stories via the phone from Chloe seeing the building going down, and Emily and Jessica meeting everyone for meals. I remember Charlie sitting alone in his room, not having met us yet. And I remember the giant sleepover we had that night…and though it turned into people being angry and sad, I’ll remember that our first reaction was “How can we Help?” And it was my first and best experience of college relationships, and served as a pattern for the rest of my experience at Oberlin College….. and that is what I never want to forget about 9/11
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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ.
She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible.
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