One for the Hip Column

This week, my brother Andy, posted a punch-in-the-gut story from the Dispatch that said "Morningstar is a United Methodist Church, but it seems more like a hip, contemporary, evangelical church."

Well I think this is pretty hip. After 9-11, Bush's psuedo-gestapo homeland security agenga grew as fast and as out of control as a Bugs Bunny snowball rolling down a hill. It has now reached all the way to a place named, of all things, Friendship Park in San Diego. Friendship Park, for GENERATIONS before Bush, was a place for familes and friends to meet between Mexico and the United States and feel whatever community one can feel between the links of a fence. George Bush will now take away even that amount of contact. They're putting in another fence!

Well, one pastor, the one above, Pastor John Fanestil, has decided to offer whatever he can. He can't stop the administration from erasing the words from Lady Liberty, but he can preside over Holy Communion.

Every Sunday afternoon, Pastor Fanestil goes to Friendship Park and serves communion to families on both sides of the fence, helping them participate in the sacrament together by handing the bread and cup through the links of the fence.

This is true communion. What it is supposed to be. What it is supposed to mean.

Oh, and Pastor John Fanestil, he's a United Methodist. Count one for the hip, contemporary, evangelical column.

Brad