1 00:00:24,34 --> 00:00:28,16 Hello and welcome to neighbor to neighbor I'm your host for today DANDACHI assets 2 00:00:28,44 --> 00:00:32,71 and we're very pleased to have with us Mr Barber Hanson who's the minister at All 3 00:00:32,72 --> 00:00:37,62 Souls Church thank you so much for being with us for thank you for inviting me Oh 4 00:00:37,63 --> 00:00:43,15 you're welcome to the show up let's start in. We did you come from and how did you 5 00:00:43,16 --> 00:00:47,19 wind up in Brattleboro well. As 6 00:00:47,20 --> 00:00:52,50 a really big question where did I come from and how did I end up in Brattleboro. 7 00:00:55,09 --> 00:01:00,75 Immediately before coming to Brattleboro I was not that far away I was in 8 00:01:00,76 --> 00:01:07,26 Plattsburg. New York of course originally 9 00:01:07,72 --> 00:01:11,62 I come from Sweden that's a little bit further away is 10 00:01:11,64 --> 00:01:17,23 a bit of like that yes it is. But. You know 11 00:01:18,22 --> 00:01:24,97 coming from Sweden in ending up in in Brattleboro Vermont is 12 00:01:24,98 --> 00:01:31,69 a really good way to go I find myself feeling very much at home here in Brattleboro 13 00:01:31,69 --> 00:01:37,55 . Politically culturally and. 14 00:01:38,56 --> 00:01:45,49 Religiously as well the climate is almost exactly like what I grew up 15 00:01:45,82 --> 00:01:52,58 in in Sweden Wow So which part of Sweden did you know yeah I was born in the 16 00:01:52,59 --> 00:01:58,97 race just north of Stockholm and what back then used to be the 17 00:01:59,52 --> 00:02:05,32 northernmost suburbs of Stockholm which meant 18 00:02:05,46 --> 00:02:09,37 a very rural suburb we actually live in 19 00:02:09,41 --> 00:02:14,03 a. Apartment complex across from a farm 20 00:02:14,50 --> 00:02:20,87 a dairy farm and I remember walking from our apartment building. 21 00:02:21,94 --> 00:02:28,45 Across the street to the farm to get fresh melamine in our milk pail Yeah 22 00:02:28,94 --> 00:02:35,28 so was that in any way similar to how Brattleboro was developed and now. That's 23 00:02:35,29 --> 00:02:42,02 over from the US. Brattleboro is much bigger than the 24 00:02:42,03 --> 00:02:47,15 suburb OK I lived in back that currently. 25 00:02:49,88 --> 00:02:56,33 It may be similar in size but back then it was. More like. 26 00:02:57,39 --> 00:03:03,02 Almost new thing OK that makes it except there were apartment buildings that their 27 00:03:03,03 --> 00:03:09,36 apartment buildings where the focus of the community really. Now 28 00:03:10,00 --> 00:03:13,24 Sweden two probable it is 29 00:03:13,25 --> 00:03:19,02 a job and the way the most votes in the community have met you is most likely 30 00:03:19,63 --> 00:03:23,48 through your work at all sorts Truitt Yaz minister of the Unitarian Universalist 31 00:03:23,49 --> 00:03:28,66 congregation there how did you make that journey what got you interested in 32 00:03:28,67 --> 00:03:32,12 Unitarian Universalism in particular and then and then being 33 00:03:32,13 --> 00:03:34,77 a minister in specific Well it's 34 00:03:34,78 --> 00:03:41,23 a long and winding road. That brought me here to Brattleboro from 35 00:03:41,24 --> 00:03:48,01 Sweden. I left Sweden in one thousand nine hundred seventy three. 36 00:03:49,17 --> 00:03:51,31 At the time just for 37 00:03:51,32 --> 00:03:58,22 a vacation I was heading to Greece. It was the month of May and. 38 00:03:59,41 --> 00:04:06,27 I. I was going to Greece for the sun and warm water 39 00:04:06,31 --> 00:04:12,90 and and. For this simple relaxation and 40 00:04:13,25 --> 00:04:18,14 beauty of it I was planning to spend a whole month there with 41 00:04:18,15 --> 00:04:24,80 a friend. On the way to the Greek Island of Dr I 42 00:04:24,81 --> 00:04:31,62 bumped into American he was stationed in the army but that particular 43 00:04:31,63 --> 00:04:38,56 weekend he was on his way on. I'm not 44 00:04:38,60 --> 00:04:44,19 a weekend adventure he was not in uniform I had no clue. 45 00:04:46,58 --> 00:04:47,76 He and I struck up 46 00:04:47,77 --> 00:04:54,60 a conversation and one thing led to another and I got to know him really well 47 00:04:54,61 --> 00:05:01,56 during my stay in Greece and when I returned to Sweden to work again. 48 00:05:03,07 --> 00:05:10,02 I. I realized. I had fallen in love and that I want 49 00:05:10,03 --> 00:05:11,67 to live for that to have 50 00:05:11,68 --> 00:05:18,02 a chance. And so I went back down I actually quit my 51 00:05:18,03 --> 00:05:24,78 job. And went back to Greece to. 52 00:05:26,01 --> 00:05:33,00 To check the relationship out and it's probably. Maybe 53 00:05:33,01 --> 00:05:38,93 not every parent's nightmare. Nearly every parent's nightmare to have 54 00:05:38,94 --> 00:05:45,85 a young daughter go off like. That any sort of safety in that 55 00:05:45,86 --> 00:05:50,88 except a return ticket home. I got married 56 00:05:51,14 --> 00:05:57,21 a few months later and came over to this country that way. 57 00:05:58,92 --> 00:06:05,51 And first arrived in Virginia. The man I married Mark was his 58 00:06:05,52 --> 00:06:12,10 name he. He extended his tour of duty it was 59 00:06:12,57 --> 00:06:19,56 by then one nine hundred seventy four and the energy crisis had erupted here 60 00:06:19,57 --> 00:06:23,05 in this country and I think their. 61 00:06:27,99 --> 00:06:34,78 Economic situation was very the pressing so he he really 62 00:06:34,95 --> 00:06:41,56 upped his Tor and we were stationed he was stationed outside of 63 00:06:41,56 --> 00:06:47,62 Washington at first with his mother living in Charlottesville Charlottesville 64 00:06:47,63 --> 00:06:54,42 Virginia became our sort of home more or less then we went off to New 65 00:06:54,43 --> 00:07:00,72 York City. Where he finished his tour of duty he did all together in 66 00:07:00,84 --> 00:07:07,41 years in the Army and our daughter was born there care. And when 67 00:07:07,42 --> 00:07:14,37 he. When he was this charge to be ended up moving back to Virginia to be 68 00:07:14,38 --> 00:07:20,99 nearer family his family. To the Shannon to our valley 69 00:07:21,03 --> 00:07:25,19 room things were very conducive for 70 00:07:25,20 --> 00:07:32,14 a young family to race. On and that was in one nine 71 00:07:32,15 --> 00:07:38,89 hundred seventy eight back now Mark 72 00:07:39,32 --> 00:07:46,26 was the one who introduced me to Unitarian Universalism in Sweden I had never heard 73 00:07:46,26 --> 00:07:52,94 . That faith tradition by virtue of being born in Sweden to Swedish 74 00:07:52,95 --> 00:07:55,41 parents I was 75 00:07:55,45 --> 00:08:01,93 a Swedish Lutheran member of the church by birth and back to 76 00:08:02,02 --> 00:08:08,98 baptized. As an infant. I did 77 00:08:08,99 --> 00:08:15,55 word pretty much ninety nine percent of young people did back then in Sweden. 78 00:08:16,70 --> 00:08:23,03 I went to catechism classes and was confirmed probably 79 00:08:23,26 --> 00:08:29,72 thirteen or fourteen. But all that 80 00:08:29,79 --> 00:08:36,68 time and especially as I entered into my teen years I started 81 00:08:37,70 --> 00:08:41,77 asking questions and I wondered 82 00:08:41,81 --> 00:08:47,98 a lot about religion and about different faith 83 00:08:48,02 --> 00:08:54,41 traditions and. And I was 84 00:08:54,42 --> 00:09:01,26 encouraged not in the Swedish church but in school the 85 00:09:01,85 --> 00:09:08,19 curriculum included in public school the curriculum included. 86 00:09:10,08 --> 00:09:16,16 Religion. Survey class of. Religion so we studied 87 00:09:17,42 --> 00:09:24,17 Christianity Protestantism Kath. Started your day with 88 00:09:24,93 --> 00:09:30,93 we learned about Buddhism and Hindu this. And my 89 00:09:31,03 --> 00:09:37,93 curiosity was piqued. All through those different classes. 90 00:09:39,42 --> 00:09:46,00 And. By the time I was seventeen or eighteen years old I I 91 00:09:46,01 --> 00:09:51,00 considered actually leaving the Swedish church. 92 00:09:53,20 --> 00:10:00,07 But when I went I was told that that would mean 93 00:10:00,83 --> 00:10:07,73 in the eyes of the Swedish church that I was an atheist I said well I'm not 94 00:10:07,74 --> 00:10:10,70 an atheist it's just that I have 95 00:10:10,71 --> 00:10:17,50 a different. Different believes than than what the 96 00:10:17,54 --> 00:10:22,89 Swedish Lutheran Church. Proposes. 97 00:10:24,91 --> 00:10:31,84 So I had never followed through. Leaving the church but I was seeking I 98 00:10:31,85 --> 00:10:38,21 was definitely see wanting very much some sort of. 99 00:10:40,99 --> 00:10:47,40 Connection that was more inclusive than the 100 00:10:47,84 --> 00:10:54,75 creed of the church allowed when I met Mark 101 00:10:55,30 --> 00:11:01,47 in Greece. He shared his background with me and he had been 102 00:11:01,48 --> 00:11:07,91 a member of the Unitarian youth group in Greenfield Mass and she was. 103 00:11:08,96 --> 00:11:15,01 Just down the road passing and he started explaining some of the 104 00:11:15,05 --> 00:11:20,79 values and philosophies and theologies. 105 00:11:21,99 --> 00:11:28,33 There then Unitarian Universalism and I thought oh that's what I have been all 106 00:11:28,34 --> 00:11:35,29 along without knowing. In the best way I can describe it 107 00:11:35,84 --> 00:11:38,12 for me personally was that all of 108 00:11:38,13 --> 00:11:44,95 a sudden it was as if the the windows of the world opened up 109 00:11:45,89 --> 00:11:51,71 for me. I I couldn't. 110 00:11:52,92 --> 00:11:58,52 Find the sort of ideas and. 111 00:11:59,73 --> 00:12:05,38 Thoughts that I had had and feel like yes 112 00:12:07,01 --> 00:12:13,57 this sense I'm not so strange about that I don't sound very I felt very much at 113 00:12:13,58 --> 00:12:14,79 home all of 114 00:12:14,80 --> 00:12:21,66 a sudden and and then when we settled down in Virginia. 115 00:12:25,79 --> 00:12:32,61 They both became members of the Unitarian Universalist congregation there and 116 00:12:32,62 --> 00:12:39,26 raised our daughter. In that congregation with the religious education 117 00:12:39,27 --> 00:12:45,29 classes that they offered she participated in them and I just ended up getting more 118 00:12:45,30 --> 00:12:50,92 and mom more involved with church life it just seemed like 119 00:12:54,91 --> 00:12:55,72 it was 120 00:12:55,73 --> 00:13:03,78 a magnet to to my way of being. The 121 00:13:03,79 --> 00:13:07,35 more involved I got the Church in church life. 122 00:13:11,08 --> 00:13:17,18 The more whole life felt the more I felt like myself like the person I wanted 123 00:13:18,12 --> 00:13:24,42 to be now at that time did you feel I think when you would be called to the 124 00:13:24,43 --> 00:13:31,22 ministry yourself. And. I had no such ideas 125 00:13:31,23 --> 00:13:37,20 except maybe in terms of the fantasy but 126 00:13:38,36 --> 00:13:41,75 at that point I did not yet have 127 00:13:41,76 --> 00:13:48,64 a college education I had only finished nine years of. Schooling in Sweden 128 00:13:48,74 --> 00:13:54,96 that was all that means required. And I was I was not 129 00:13:54,97 --> 00:14:01,21 a happy student in in the seventh eighth and ninth grade in Sweden 130 00:14:01,82 --> 00:14:08,70 so when I graduated from what was considered Swedish high school in ninth grade 131 00:14:09,53 --> 00:14:16,39 I went to work I did not go on to the next 132 00:14:16,40 --> 00:14:23,10 level so when and how did you did it evolve that you decided to take 133 00:14:23,52 --> 00:14:25,67 the ministry seriously and actually become 134 00:14:25,71 --> 00:14:31,66 a minister and the fact that you know small 135 00:14:31,67 --> 00:14:38,26 increments all along really. Being an 136 00:14:38,27 --> 00:14:45,09 immigrant affected what I thought I could do what I could not do. 137 00:14:46,55 --> 00:14:51,27 I came to the United States in one thousand seventy four and. 138 00:14:53,38 --> 00:14:55,00 I had married into 139 00:14:55,01 --> 00:15:01,44 a family of educate I didn't realize that when I married but that 140 00:15:01,45 --> 00:15:07,55 became. Very. Clear 141 00:15:08,27 --> 00:15:14,20 as I got to know my new family. And they were very supportive of me 142 00:15:15,54 --> 00:15:22,07 continuing my education so one side began to 143 00:15:22,08 --> 00:15:28,37 feel more at home in this new culture I looked into the community 144 00:15:28,38 --> 00:15:35,09 college where we lived and rolled in in an associate's degree 145 00:15:35,14 --> 00:15:41,25 program when I finished that I transferred to. 146 00:15:42,39 --> 00:15:48,69 Mary Baldwin College to get the fallback Schiller's degree OK and 147 00:15:49,59 --> 00:15:53,83 I did it at Mehrabad one college because they have an adult to reprogram 148 00:15:53,84 --> 00:16:00,25 specifically for people like me. People with. 149 00:16:01,56 --> 00:16:08,35 Working life and family and all along the way taking classes at the 150 00:16:08,36 --> 00:16:14,63 community college and then married Baldwin College my confidence built 151 00:16:14,97 --> 00:16:21,71 and my ability to be fluent in my new culture and it with 152 00:16:21,72 --> 00:16:28,58 my language increase. Ann and I became more and 153 00:16:28,59 --> 00:16:35,52 more involved with church life beyond the congregation I got involved with the 154 00:16:36,06 --> 00:16:41,54 region and. Congregation. And. 155 00:16:42,66 --> 00:16:49,32 Eventually I was elected to serve as president of. 156 00:16:50,42 --> 00:16:51,68 The G.O.P. 157 00:16:51,69 --> 00:16:58,52 Graphical district on Terry. Where where I live and now where 158 00:16:58,53 --> 00:17:03,72 that little responsibility of motive driven other people running that. Obviously. 159 00:17:04,78 --> 00:17:11,68 From that you escalated your involvement so I was driving down. And by 160 00:17:11,69 --> 00:17:18,59 this time. That. My husband Mark and I had actually 161 00:17:18,60 --> 00:17:23,30 separated I was we had divorced I was 162 00:17:23,31 --> 00:17:28,79 a single mother working full time and doing one volunteer with. 163 00:17:29,86 --> 00:17:32,18 Richard's life. On 164 00:17:32,19 --> 00:17:41,30 a part time basis and I loved it it was. It 165 00:17:41,31 --> 00:17:47,61 was just what what gave me life and purpose to balance all three 166 00:17:49,75 --> 00:17:56,15 so. Moving forward in one nine hundred ninety three OK I was. 167 00:17:57,40 --> 00:18:02,28 I had just completed my first year of 168 00:18:02,28 --> 00:18:09,04 a two year term as the strict president of the Thomas Jefferson district which is 169 00:18:09,05 --> 00:18:15,60 sort of the mid-South OK. Of the east and. 170 00:18:17,01 --> 00:18:21,53 We were hosting the big national convention of the Unitarian Universalist 171 00:18:21,54 --> 00:18:27,65 Association of Charlotte North Carolina and it happened to be the same year that we 172 00:18:27,66 --> 00:18:34,46 celebrated that two hundred fifty years birth Thomas Jefferson in the district I 173 00:18:34,47 --> 00:18:40,96 served was named after Thomas Jefferson so we were quite proud of this 174 00:18:41,40 --> 00:18:47,92 and. When we were not I arrived at the 175 00:18:47,93 --> 00:18:50,86 convention. I had 176 00:18:50,90 --> 00:18:57,57 a role in welcoming everybody to to Charlotte and. 177 00:18:58,98 --> 00:19:05,89 And that was going to be sort of the. Main contribution that I have and I 178 00:19:05,90 --> 00:19:12,55 have after that I was just another delegate participant but that was my 179 00:19:12,56 --> 00:19:18,98 moment in in the starlight the thought What happened 180 00:19:19,11 --> 00:19:25,97 was. An event had been planned for later during the convention to celebrate 181 00:19:26,24 --> 00:19:32,33 the birthday of trying this Jefferson and it was advertised promoted 182 00:19:32,82 --> 00:19:33,33 as 183 00:19:33,34 --> 00:19:40,63 a birthday bar and people were invited to come dressed in period costume 184 00:19:42,57 --> 00:19:47,71 many people didn't think much of that actually many people thought that sounded 185 00:19:47,72 --> 00:19:53,61 exciting who doesn't want to have an opportunity to dress up right 186 00:19:54,60 --> 00:20:01,17 but Unitarian Universalism have. A membership that includes 187 00:20:01,38 --> 00:20:07,68 African-American people and black people who aren't necessarily African 188 00:20:07,72 --> 00:20:13,16 American. And many of them actually 189 00:20:16,47 --> 00:20:22,70 were quite well and had. The invitation and by that 190 00:20:22,89 --> 00:20:29,78 idea that we were going to celebrate someone who first of all had not 191 00:20:29,84 --> 00:20:36,57 been Unitarian. And second was the slave of own 192 00:20:38,06 --> 00:20:43,13 so to say the least all right. 193 00:20:45,98 --> 00:20:50,53 Yes You know I just get that coming dressed in period would require 194 00:20:50,54 --> 00:20:55,72 a radically different costume depending on where your background yes yes and we 195 00:20:55,73 --> 00:20:59,64 were made aware of that right something some of the costumes none too flattering 196 00:20:59,83 --> 00:21:06,51 right so. When all hell broke out at 197 00:21:07,28 --> 00:21:14,15 the first opening. Plenary session right if I 198 00:21:14,16 --> 00:21:20,58 was just one of the many delegates but because I 199 00:21:20,62 --> 00:21:24,77 served as district press hour I felt 200 00:21:25,16 --> 00:21:31,44 a sense of responsibility even though I really had nothing to do with with any of 201 00:21:31,45 --> 00:21:37,65 the planning at all I still felt you know I'm in the 202 00:21:37,94 --> 00:21:44,44 leadership will make sense so I ended up being. In 203 00:21:44,44 --> 00:21:50,85 a group of thirteen people who were charged by our moderator 204 00:21:50,92 --> 00:21:56,12 and. The nomination of president to. 205 00:21:58,33 --> 00:21:58,65 Have 206 00:21:58,67 --> 00:22:05,36 a deeper conversation about what had happened and try to find 207 00:22:05,78 --> 00:22:07,19 some toward 208 00:22:07,23 --> 00:22:13,96 a solution or recommendation to bring to all the participants all the 209 00:22:13,97 --> 00:22:19,75 delegates and they were given an hour. To do that. 210 00:22:21,78 --> 00:22:27,90 So. We actually had one of the 211 00:22:28,53 --> 00:22:34,62 best conversations I ever had and we stayed in the circle in 212 00:22:34,63 --> 00:22:41,43 a room that might have been twelve by twelve in size we were quite close. 213 00:22:42,60 --> 00:22:49,42 We held hands through most of that meeting we shared tears and we shared laughter 214 00:22:49,46 --> 00:22:56,27 they shared our pain and hurt and our hopes and aspirations in our vision 215 00:22:57,05 --> 00:23:03,99 and our vision was that they're not here to. Place blame or to point 216 00:23:04,00 --> 00:23:09,70 fingers and anyone for doing wrong we are here to lift up the 217 00:23:09,71 --> 00:23:16,45 opportunity to learn from our common mistake are 218 00:23:16,67 --> 00:23:23,33 here to stay. And to become better people in this process to 219 00:23:23,34 --> 00:23:29,100 become. More understanding and respect and 220 00:23:30,50 --> 00:23:35,51 everybody looked at me when our time was up and said we'd like for you to be the 221 00:23:35,52 --> 00:23:42,48 first one to speak. And I swallowed hard and said no. 222 00:23:43,63 --> 00:23:49,16 And they kept looking at me and saying yeah you were drafted evidently and I said 223 00:23:49,17 --> 00:23:55,70 well OK I'll do it if my partner who 224 00:23:55,71 --> 00:24:02,63 served also in the Thomas Jefferson district could stand with me 225 00:24:02,67 --> 00:24:09,50 and we would hold hands we stand together. His name was Leon and he was 226 00:24:09,51 --> 00:24:16,04 a black man and I wanted for us to stand together 227 00:24:16,33 --> 00:24:23,26 for the impact that that would make I was the first one to speak and Leon 228 00:24:23,50 --> 00:24:29,35 spoke next and the whole time he stood together while I was speaking. 229 00:24:31,56 --> 00:24:38,45 There were three. People in the audience and 230 00:24:38,54 --> 00:24:43,56 as I was speaking I felt like 231 00:24:46,87 --> 00:24:50,69 something greater than me was. 232 00:24:54,70 --> 00:25:01,26 Speaking through me and that's when I received my call to 233 00:25:01,27 --> 00:25:05,98 ministry that's when I felt I had. 234 00:25:07,91 --> 00:25:13,81 Well from that experience bringing that to but rather were own and your ministry it 235 00:25:13,82 --> 00:25:16,24 also was true church can you describe 236 00:25:16,28 --> 00:25:21,70 a little bit for viewers how the role you feel all sorts of plays in the community 237 00:25:21,70 --> 00:25:28,60 . And any special projects in particular that you and we're also struck might be 238 00:25:28,61 --> 00:25:35,40 involved with at this time well when I came to our Souls Church eight years 239 00:25:35,41 --> 00:25:37,76 ago. Eight and 240 00:25:37,77 --> 00:25:43,100 a half years ago. I came there the portfolio that was 241 00:25:44,01 --> 00:25:50,20 probably. The strongest on the pastoral side 242 00:25:50,94 --> 00:25:51,62 providing 243 00:25:51,63 --> 00:25:57,100 a pastoral ministry and that was very much needed at that 244 00:25:58,06 --> 00:26:02,47 point. Our souls TRITCH having had 245 00:26:02,48 --> 00:26:08,16 a very traumatic experience. I am 246 00:26:08,17 --> 00:26:11,45 a good listener and I've provided 247 00:26:11,49 --> 00:26:15,35 a lot of opportunities for people to to. 248 00:26:18,14 --> 00:26:25,13 Speak to me about their experiences and and provide some guy in this in 249 00:26:25,22 --> 00:26:32,09 in the healing that needed to as we have 250 00:26:32,10 --> 00:26:34,19 journeyed together now for eight and 251 00:26:34,20 --> 00:26:40,43 a half years. My. My emphasis has by nature 252 00:26:40,44 --> 00:26:46,50 shifted because I've gotten involved with with the community primarily through the 253 00:26:46,51 --> 00:26:53,39 interface thirty years so seeing is that based on one of our own yes here it 254 00:26:53,40 --> 00:26:57,93 is it's the Brattleboro area interface clergy Association 255 00:26:58,13 --> 00:27:04,65 a fantastic group that includes. The 256 00:27:04,66 --> 00:27:11,63 Catholic. PRIEST. The 257 00:27:11,99 --> 00:27:18,96 major Protestant denominations the Jewish rabbi. The 258 00:27:18,97 --> 00:27:25,72 Muslim community Buddhist group. The By high 259 00:27:25,90 --> 00:27:32,72 community and of course Unitarian persons the meet monthly 260 00:27:33,73 --> 00:27:36,62 except during the summer when we take 261 00:27:36,63 --> 00:27:41,13 a break and really we provide. 262 00:27:42,64 --> 00:27:47,30 Services and programs throughout the year that 263 00:27:50,08 --> 00:27:57,00 foster interfaith conversations and relationships. 264 00:27:58,01 --> 00:28:04,46 And every then that's that provide ministry in the community. 265 00:28:06,43 --> 00:28:13,31 The major effort that we have been involved with during the last couple of years 266 00:28:13,32 --> 00:28:19,04 has been around the driver area winter emergency or overflow shelter here. 267 00:28:20,30 --> 00:28:27,21 Two years ago we took on the responsibility of making sure that all of the guests 268 00:28:27,25 --> 00:28:34,15 that overflow shelter receive the evening meal OK so that they can sleep 269 00:28:34,69 --> 00:28:40,59 right and responsibility shared amongst the different congregations involved yes. 270 00:28:41,65 --> 00:28:48,07 I volunteered as the coordinator of the meals and 271 00:28:48,59 --> 00:28:55,39 all the congregations all the faith communities participate in some way this 272 00:28:55,40 --> 00:29:00,49 is providing meals or thank you so much for joining us for all thank you that has 273 00:29:00,50 --> 00:29:00,59 been 274 00:29:00,60 --> 00:29:05,08 a pleasure having you here you folks you've been watching neighbor to neighbor I'm 275 00:29:05,09 --> 00:29:09,33 your host for today Daniel caskets sitting in for Lent Corum Our guest has been 276 00:29:09,34 --> 00:29:14,19 Barbara Hanson the minister at all sorts church in West Brom about thank you very 277 00:29:14,20 --> 00:29:16,42 much for watching and we'll see you next week.