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Black Church Food Security Network, Interview #1
This interview discusses how the Black Church Food Security Network is working to create a community-based food system by black churches in partnerships with black farmers. They are calling on churches to promote gardening, patronize black farmers, and practice emergency food storage, the latter of which will help with the current pandemic as well as prospective ones. -
CLLCTIVLY, Interview #1
This interview provides insight into how the local black community in Baltimore, Maryland is adapting to and supporting one another during the COVID-19 crisis and following the death of George Floyd. It is discusses how the coupling of these two crisis is magnifying certain aspects of their community that typically goes unseen, and how CLLCTIVLY is looking to take that visibility and extend it beyond just the moment to continue to uplift community members beyond the present. -
Asylee Women Enterprise, Interview #1
A conversation providing insight as to how female asylum seekers to the US are coping through COVID-19, with an emphasis on relief work. Also provides excellent insight as to support organizations, and different types of support they can provide beyond community during the pandemic through community building and guidence through trauma. -
Sogorea Te Land Trust, Interview #2
Nazshonnii of the Sogorea Te Land Trust discusses how their organization is adapting their outreach efforts amidst COVID. Technology allows them to maintain connection to their community while still limiting physical gatherings to adhere to COVID safety protocols. -
St. Jude, Saint of Hopeless Causes. Do not touch it for hope during the Pandemic.
St. Jude in the Roman Catholic tradition is the patron of hope and believed to cure hopeless causes. Normally people touch the statute in prayer and comfort- just not now. -
Virgin Mary's Feast Day Church Celebrations Canceled due to Pandemic.
Many Latin American countries celebrate the Roman Catholic faith. The Virgin Mary (Mother of God) is honored by many names on different dates with exuberant feasts. Example: Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico feast day is December 12. See church bulletin in English and Spanish. -
Mexican COVID-19 Victims' Remains in a St. Patrick's Cathedral special mass.
The Mexican Consulate organized a Mass for 250 Mexicans COVID-19 victims in the New York area. The deceased were cremated for shipping to their families in Mexico. Latinos continue to have the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths, nationwide. Read moving article in the Catholic News. -
Community Refrigerator arrives at Church! Feeding the multitude during the Pandemic. See all 3 pictures.
Placed on the street, the church maintained fridge offers 24 hours a day access to free community donated food. The premise of the free-food fridge is simple: Take what you need and leave what you don’t. No judgment. No waiting for food pantry or soup kitchen day. -
Mother Teresa of Calcutta's shelter for women and children in West Harlem. Pandemic reduces food donations.
The Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic Order of nuns, was created by Mother Teresa of Calcutta - see painting the wall. The nuns operate a shelter in an old unused convent. St. Mary's Church shares its food with their shelter, through volunteers. -
Saturday food & water distribution. Same corner, same time, same love. St Mary volunteers
St. Mary's Church's Saturday weekly food and water distribution. The homeless can rely on volunteers. Love is constant and never fails. -
Online and socially distanced church camp
In-person church camp was obviously unacceptable, given the pandemic. So church camp this year was held online via YouTube, followed by an in-person but socially distanced car rally on the last night. -
Campus ministry graffiti at GMU
On the last weekday before classes start for the fall 2020 semester, there are signs of active campus ministries around campus. -
My mother's funeral - what it's like to have someone you love die of covid-19
This story, published in the Jewish Standard, tells the story of my mother's death of covid in a nursing home, at the height of the pandemic in New York; her funeral, and sitting shiva for her. -
Matching Tallis and mask during a socially distanced minyan
Wearing a Tallis and mask of matching fabric during a socially distanced minyan for Rosh Chodesh Elul -
Church of Good Counsel serves breakfast, again
Many houses of worship ceased providing meals due to Pandemic. Slowly they start serving food again -
Broadway Presbyterian Church prepares for Sunday online worship service.
Broadway Presbyterian Church. The Church doors were almost closed, but through the church gates, I could see all was ready for a live Sunday 10:30 am worship service on Facebook. -
Corpus Christi Church and its baptismal font. Thomas Merton was baptized at Corpus Christi.
Notice the pews with blue masking tape indicating appropriate social distancing for worshippers. Mass is offered on Saturday at 5 pm plus three masses Sunday, including one in Spanish. No baptisms at font have been allowed since Pandemic. -
A Catholic School closes its doors due to the Pandemic after 85 years of teaching thousands of children.
The Catholic Archdiocese of New York closed 20 Catholic K-8th grade schools due to Pandemic, including the Corpus Christi School with its current 175 poor Black and Latino students.. COVID-19 has had a devastating financial impact on Catholic school families. Mass unemployment means families can not afford tuition so there has been a low rate of re-registration for the Fall. Months of canceled masses caused loss of parish contributions that traditionally help support Catholic schools. -
Jen Miskov's Saturate OC experience
Jen Miskov posted about her experience with Saturate OC on Instagram. The text below is the caption from her post: -
Dycota, a St. Mary volunteer, explains he lived in shelters at one time.
Dycota donates his time to St. Mary's Saturday's Food Outreach Ministry. -
Raul explains that he gives his free time because it's right. Video
Raul volunteers with St. Mary's Saturday Food Outreach -
Live from Grace Church
This page on Grace Church's website provides links to live streamed services, virtual services, and other events. -
Giving Up Church for Lent
This blog post, written by Claude Scales (a member of Grace Church), recognizes the difficulty of isolation and separation due to COVID-19, and its impact on church services. The pandemic hit the United States right around the beginning of Lent. Scales normally uses this time as a period of reflection, and chose this time to reflect on the impact of COVID-19. -
Reverend Brett Younger's Articles on COVID-19 and Religion
"Easter at the epicenter: last Sunday in New York" is an honest description of the difficulty of living through a pandemic in one of the hardest hit spots in the country. Younger recognizes that hope was hard to feel this Easter, but that only meant that whatever hope they did feel meant more. -
Plymouth Church Online Worship
"Hope in the Time of Corona" was the first sermon posted as part of Plymouth Church's online worship services. The sermon is given in an empty church, and addresses the way that worship will be different due to COVID-19. The minister uses attempts at humor to help ease the transition to a virtual meeting space. As the name of the sermon suggests, the focus is on how faith in God can provide hope during the pandemic. The second video in this collection, "Loving God during a Crisis", acknowledges that these are extraordinarily difficult times. The ministers shares the message with his congregation that God can offer support and comfort during these times if they only open their hearts to Him. The third video in this collection is comprised of the Easter Sunday service. It recognizes that while it may be more difficult to feel joy this Easter, that it may mean more this year.