Early January gathering

On the first Wednesday of the new year, half a dozen plus Crescent Hill folks interested in Guatemala mission met over dinner out at Keith and Andrew’s. The group solidified plans for a talk by LiErin Probasco on the “Theologies of Receiving: How Latin Americans Interpret Donations from North America,” slated for 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 21, in the Fellowship Hall. A light supper and PowerPoint presentation are on tap. We then moved on to a thorny topic: what to do about the longstanding written request we’d gotten from Estoreño presbytery leaders, going back to a Sept. 29 e-mail. We blew hot and cold about it and shifted towards sending the $350 some had thought we should have already sent. With this in mind, we talked – briefly – to Pastor Gerardo for the first time in months. He said he’d check in with presbytery colleagues about possible help – perhaps for the El Chupon church or the Christian education materials project. We had interrupted Gerardo in the middle of worship at his church. Hanging up after implying we’d send money, we talked for a time about possibly bringing a group of Estoreñ o folks to Louisville, for a visit this summer, this coming Thanksgiving, or next summer. Then we talked about opposing Senate Bill 6, the proposed Arizona-style KY immigraition-control law that seemed fast-tracked through the KY Senate. It wasn’t clear that any in the group would be able to make it to a gathering of opponents that Saturday. We closed with the idea that we would meet again at Phil and Claudia’s at 9:30 a.m., February 5 (a day that the campaign against the bill might now jeopardize). More later on the bill and the money. No pictures of the gathering (or the dog) because my camera had run off.