Whether it’s a bee or a hummingbird moth, somebody is getting busy on some colorful mid summer flora.
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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Hi, my name is Leah. I’m an 11-year-old spayed female cat. I am sweet, quiet and shy. I love a good lap to sit on and would make a great companion for anyone young or old. I have a beautiful tabby coat and my shorter than normal tail makes me unique among my feline friends. Won’t you stop in and say hello to me?
• Time change. Beginning Aug. 20, the Government Study Commission of Concord Township will hold meetings on the first and third Thursday of the month at 4:30 p.m. at the Concord Township Municipal Building, 43 Thornton Rd.
• The Brandywine River Museum of Art will host a “bon voyage” party on Thursday, Aug. 27, from 10:30 a.m. to noon to say “farewell for now” to Portrait of Pig by Jamie Wyeth, one of the most popular paintings in its collection. Portrait of Pig is a nearly life-sized painting of Wyeth’s pet pig, Den Den. The painting will travel to the Denver Art Museum where it will be on view in “Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio.” The painting will return to Brandywine in February. The morning’s fun activities include creating a colorful pig sculpture, making a card to wish Den Den well on her adventure, and taking creative selfies in front of the painting for the chance to win a prize package from the museum shop of items featuring Portrait of Pig. Activities are free for members and included in museum admission.
•The Academy of International Ballet is holding open auditions for its December 2015 full-length production of the Nutcracker Ballet. Auditions for all ages and levels of experience will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22, and on Sunday, Sept. 13, in its studios at 75 West Baltimore Pike in Media. An audition fee of $25 is required. Students who are cast will receive a detailed rehearsal schedule. For additional information contact AIB at 866-908-5666 or gronballet@gmail.com. The website is www.academyballetru.com
• The Kennett Area Senior Center hosts “Ask Your Pharmacist” on the third Tuesday of every month. On Tuesday, August 18 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. local pharmacist, Judy Labashosky will present “Lyme Disease and Treatments,”
•As New York prepares for the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., Penn Oaks Tennis and Fitness Center has its eyes on introducing the game to future stars. Penn Oaks is offering eight-week sessions throughout the year with special pricing as low as $20 per hour so younger kids can try the game. For information, go to www.pennoakstennisandfitness.com.
• The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art has launched a new website that will continue to have information on upcoming events, exhibitions, and conservancy services. In addition, the new site will add features such as highlights from the art collection, conservancy projects, museum guide, conservation success stories, visiting with children guide, information about historic resources, and Brandywine Blog. The new blog will complement the museum and conservancy blogs and focus on the intersection of art and the environment. To view it, click here, http://www.brandywine.org.
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• Burglary and assault charges were filed against Joshua Clyde Tucker, 26, of Chadds Ford, for an Aug. 1 incident at 109 Wilmington-West Chester Pike. A police report said state troopers from the Media barracks were dispatched to the location in response to a call about a burglary and assault. Upon arrival, responders determined that an apartment had been entered and that the victim, a 39-year-old man from Chadds Ford, had been beaten. The report said Tucker had fled the scene, but was later apprehended and admitted to the assault.
• State police are investigating a case of identity theft. The case centers on fraudulent money transfers from the victim’s bank account. Police said the suspects are a white man and woman from Wilmington. The victim is from Concord Township. The incident was reported on Aug. 7.
• A police report said Theresa G. Gaul, 61, of Boothwyn, was cited in connection with a two-car accident at Spring Valley and Temple Roads on July 31. The report said Gaul was on Temple Road when she attempted to make a left turn onto Spring Valley. Another vehicle, northbound on Spring Valley, stopped at the stop sign, then proceeded through the intersection, but was struck by Gaul’s car. No injuries were reported.
• Police are also investigating a case of what might be criminal mischief on Eavenson Way in Concord Township. According to police, the victim found a large branch had fallen from a tree on July 26 and thinks it might have been intentionally cut.
• Two people reportedly stole a large acetylene torch from a porch on Dougherty Boulevard in Concord Township about 4 a.m. on July 24.
• On Sunday, Aug. 2, at 1:14 p.m., New Garden Township Police said they responded to a business in the 300 block of Scarlett Road for a report of inappropriate touching. The victim, a 6-year-old female, advised that a male in the store walked by her in the toy aisle on multiple occasions, touching “her butt through her clothing using the palm portion of his hand.” The child immediately told her mother, who called 911. Officers made contact with Jose Avilez-Ortiz, 47, of West Chester, who insisted that if he touched the girl, it was by accident. An investigation led to his being charged with indecent assault and corruption of minors, police said. Avilez-Ortiz was arraigned and remanded to Chester County Prison after failing to post $50,000 cash bail, police said.
• Kennett Square Police arrested Gabriel Castaneda, 23, of Kennett Square, for DUI following a traffic stop on Tuesday, July 21, at 8:24 p.m. in the 500 block of South Union Street. Kennett Square Police also made a DUI arrest on Sunday, July 26, at 11:49 p.m. Alfonso Gasca-Torres, 28, of Kennett Square, was cited following a traffic stop in the 100 block of West Mulberry Street.
• A resident of the 200 block Scarlett Avenue reported to Kennett Square Police that they received a phone call last month from a subject who stated they were a cousin coming to visit from Chicago but had been in an accident and needed $1,500 right away to fix their vehicle. After sending the money, the resident called family to check on the cousin and was informed that no one had called, and no one was coming to visit. The resident tried to cancel the money wire, but the money had already been picked up, police said, advising the resident that this is a prevalent scam.
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There was an image on Facebook, another meme about veterans and how heroic, wonderful, sad, sorrowful and messed up we all are. Like many other memes, it had me flash back and brought to mind how much I dislike the popular phrase, “Thank you for your service.”
I’m one of the luckiest people going, at least in one respect: During ‘Nam, I spent 16 months in Southeast Asia, but I was at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand, where we only got hit twice.
In the mid-1980s, I realized I had a case of survival guilt and put a display cap together to help me deal with those feelings. On a camouflaged baseball cap, I sewed on my chevrons and pinned campaign ribbons on each side of the stripes. I wore that cap almost daily for years.
I was wearing the cap the day I walked into the lobby of the Chilton Co. in Radnor. At the elevator was a guy who saw the chevrons and ribbons, looked down at the floor, back up to the cap, and then looked directly at me.
“Air Force, huh?” he said. “What did you do?”
“I was humping B-52s out of U-Tapao,” I said.
He looked down again, then at me and said, “I was in the Marines. I was at Khe San. I’d be dead without the B-52s.”
Later that night, I cried over the exchange. He never used the words “thank you,” but his way of acknowledging what I, and thousands of others did, had value, personal value, to him and his statement was much more powerful than those two words.
That former marine, and all the marines and soldiers on the ground in Vietnam, were why we did what we did. But we also knew that while we were killing enemy forces to save fellow Americans, we were also killing innocent men, women and children.
A few people in the Chadds Ford area, after learning of my military stint, have used the “thank you for your service” line and can’t understand why I tend to cringe and wince when I hear those words.
More than 58,000 of my peers never made it home alive from ‘Nam and I can still get weepy over their loss. Men and women are coming home today from Afghanistan and Iraq and who knows where else with the same problems as the Vietnam vets have. Stop it. No more.
If you really want to thank me, or any other former or current member of the military, you can do so by demanding that our federal government stop sending young men and women off to kill and die in unconstitutional wars, wars that have nothing to do with the preservation of our liberties.
Put an end to wars of empire, even if they’re called “a war on terrorism.” That’s dishonest and disingenuous at best. (I would rather use another earthier expression, but I’ve been asked not to.) You can’t wage a war on a tactic.
I remember watching President George W. Bush make the speech in which he said the country would wage war against terror. I jumped with revulsion, knowing that such a call would put us into a war without end.
We’d be far better off, and more prosperous, if we had a foreign policy that didn’t meddle in the affairs of other countries, a foreign policy that doesn’t make enemies.
Politicians and governments need enemies. As Randolph Bourne said in 1918, “War is the health of the state.” But, we the people don’t need enemies or wars. Tell the politicians where to go with that imperial, world-bullying and self-serving attitude. That’s the thanks I really want. Do that, and I’ll thank you.
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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Get your walking shoes and jump in your car. The new Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail is open. The Trail incorporates all Brandywine Valley wine-based businesses including wineries, vineyards and wine bars, and celebrates the art of wine and the artistic heritage of the beautiful Brandywine Region by providing artisanal themes every month during the year.
The theme for August is painting. Several of the exhibits were featured in last week’s Art Watch by Lele Galer.
In September, wineries and tasting rooms along the trail will be highlighting local sculptures in their tasting rooms. Please remember that in September and October many wineries are harvesting their grapes.
October, wineries and tasting rooms along the trail will be highlighting art with a theme of Harvest in their tasting rooms. Culinary events and artisan food will be featured.
In November, wineries and tasting rooms along the trail will be highlighting local ceramic artists in their tasting rooms.
Fifteen local wineries and dozens of artists and artisans are participating.
The Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail brings attention to local artists, sculptors, ceramic artists and small farm run artisan food products, as they show and sell their art and produce at our local award winning wineries.
The website, http://www.brandywineartisanwinetrail.com, will also offer a detailed list of the grape varieties grown in this region, with commentary by vineyard owners and managers as well as interviews posted with the winery owners, managers, wine makers and wine bloggers of our area. As the Brandywine Valley Wine industry expands, the new wine trail can provide the information that consumers and wine enthusiasts need to know about what makes this area of Pennsylvania such a great place to grow grapes and make award winning wines.
“Linking artists, artisans and wineries just seems like a natural combination to me” says Artisan Trail Manager Lele Galer. “This area has so many interesting home-grown things going on, great wine, beer, food, and art, and so many fantastic people creating marvelous local products – it just makes sense that we should all work together and showcase what we have that is unique to the Brandywine Valley and Chester County.” Galer also notes that the tourism industry is thriving here, and that “wonderful organizations like the Brandywine Visitor’s Center” help to make this area a destination location for wine, the arts, music, food and other local artisan products.
As for the future of this new exciting Trail, Galer states, “we are evolving, and will continue to grow with the participation and input from our local artists, wineries, and other wine-related businesses.” With new vineyards and wineries springing up every year in the Brandywine Valley, there was no existing Trail that made our community and tourists aware of all of these exciting new and established wine businesses. Particularly for small wineries or wineries off the beaten path, they need to have their locations listed in one comprehensive Wine Trail to draw visitors. This new free Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail site hopefully helps to draw new customers to wine businesses for the enjoyment of both great wines and great art. “We are lucky to live in a very artistically rich community, and we hope that the Brandywine Artisan Wine Trail will help strengthen that sense of a creative community for our area and as a destination location for visitors travelling here”.
For information checkout www.brandywineartisanwinetrail.com.
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Paul Grant Linsen, 77, of Chadds Ford, died Sunday, Aug. 9, at Chester County Hospital. Born in Greensburg, Pa., he lived in Chadds Ford for the last 17 years, previously residing in West Chester.
Paul attended The Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of Alpha Chi Sigma, and graduated with a degree in chemistry from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He worked for more than 30 years at DuPont, spending much of his career in marketing and sales management. He always had a curiosity and passion for science, history, and politics.
He enjoyed spending his time with his children building cars, boating on the Chesapeake, making things go “Boom”, and more recently sharing his hobbies with his grandchildren. He served on the Sewer Autrhority of Chadds Ford Township and could often be found in the Letters to the Editor section of the Daily Local News.
Paul was preceded in death by parents Paul Gilbert and Louella Moore Linsen. Paul is survived by his wife of 16 years, Ellen Asanoff Linsen, sister Phyllis Kaylor, three children Jeffrey Linsen, Michael Linsen, and Jennifer Ellis, three step-children Kimberly Eschborn, Alexander Eschborn, and Eric Eschborn, nine grandchildren, and loving in-laws.
Family and friends are invited to his visitation on Friday, August 14, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the Pagano Funeral Home, 3711 Foulk Road in Garnet Valley, followed by memorial services at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations in Paul’s memory be sent to The American Society of Hematology (2021 L Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20036.
Online condolences may be made by visiting www.paganofuneralhome.com
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The world makes it hard enough to be a Jew. Lately, though, Jews are making it hard to be a Jew.
On July 30, an ultra-orthodox Jewish man stabbed six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade, killing teenage LGBT ally Shira Banki. On July 31, Jewish extremist settlers firebombed a Palestinian home and killed 18 month-old Ali Dawabsha while severely injuring his brother and parents.
These horrific crimes occurred days after the Jewish commemoration of the destruction of the First and Second Temples, the latter due to senseless hatred within Jewish society. Senseless hatred by Jews turned into violent terror not only made me ashamed to be Jewish; it made me question whether identifying myself as Jew, let alone a rabbi, is something I could seriously continue. If these extremists could commit terror in the name of Judaism, I was ready to lose my religion.
Growing up, I learned quickly that my Jewishness set me apart in our largely Christian society. Jews are a minority in the world, in the United States, and certainly where I grew up in the South. I was fortunate, though, to grow up surrounded by an appreciation for faith commitments. Somehow, I understood that my difference could be a point of pride; I could see being Jewish as something special.
My faith in Judaism and Jewish wisdom is not faith in the Judaism and Jewish hatred displayed in the events mentioned above. Judaism was for me always about ethical living. Jewish wisdom was for me about a technology to navigate life’s intricacies, transitions, and challenges. This challenge, though, seems too much.
Until, that is, I look in the Torah, the recording of the encounter between God and the Jewish people as a whole. In the portion for this week, Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, blessings and curses are given physical extremes on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. These extremes are overcome, though, by the concept towards the end where pilgrimage festivals are named as the opportunity to see and be seen.
The 20th century Jewish French philosopher Emanuel Levinas wrote extensively of the power of seeing another human fully. That seeing, for him, was an introduction to respons-ibility. To know that there is another like oneself is to understand oneself entirely differently than if the world alone was yours.
Seeing, done properly, creates mutuality. Mutuality creates responsibility. Responsible action illuminates the divine within each and the wholly Otherness of the divine. In other words, we should find friends and begin to glimpse God’s difference from our whimsical nature by seeing others.
We should not find enemies. We should not find human lives disposable or abominable.
What is more, we should be changed not only by seeing, but by being seen. Many synagogues have the words “know before Whom you stand” over the holy ark, reminding us to see ourselves as God sees us. We are both infinitesimal and grandiose. When we are truly seen, though, we understand ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, our faults and virtues. Being truly seen, we can better be our best selves.
In fact, Palestinian commentator Bassam Tawil saw what Jewish leaders and citizens did in response to the firebombing on July 31 and realized how Palestinian leaders and citizens are seen. He wrote about it in a way that did not remove my horror but instead restored my faith in humanity.
Being Jewish may be hard, especially so when Jews disgrace Judaism, but Jewish wisdom still teaches responsibility, ethics, and improvement. It will take work, and I expect we will all be better for it. I guess I did not lose my religion after all; I hope we all lose the religion of those who do not and will not see and be seen.
Rabbi Jeremy Winaker is the executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Hillel Network, responsible for West Chester University, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and other area colleges. He is the former head of school at the Albert Einstein Academy in Wilmington and was the senior Jewish educator at the Kristol Hillel Center at the University of Delaware for four years. Rabbi Winaker lives in Delaware with his wife and three children.
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Don’t get me wrong, my mother was a great woman and the quintessential grandmother. However, there was one time I recall when I, as a new mom, stopped her in her tracks. Elaboration here: I thwarted her from going down those tried—yet often untrue—tracks of family mythology.
Every family has a set of unwritten rules about how to live, how to think, how to feel. Some of those unwritten scripts are, of course, necessary. We hope to learn from our families how to have good hygiene, how to be polite, and how to manage the words, “thank you” and “please” from an early age. Just by observing adults, especially parents, children learn to model behaviors for good or ill. I loved mimicking my mother’s smoking, holding candy cigarettes with aplomb. Luckily, I hated the smell of the secondary smoke and, so, am a non-smoker.
If we are fortunate, we feel loved as children and will thereby learn to love ourselves and others.
Yet, even surrounded by love, families make mistakes. You can bet I made plenty as a mom. Being a mother and psychologist/family therapist is a double-edged sword: I have made parenting mistakes and observe myself at the same time, either at that moment or afterwards. Trust me, I “analyze” myself as much as I “analyze” the behaviors of anyone else.
Well, back to the incident with my mother, many years ago. My daughter was a toddler, new to walking. One day, when my daughter had tripped and fallen, my mother said, “Oh, you’re so clumsy.” She may have said it “cutely” but the words burned for me. I promptly spoke up to the attentive grandmother and requested she not label my daughter as “clumsy.”
My mother retorted, “Well, I called you that too, and probably my mother called me that as well.”
I replied, “Yes, mom, I know you said that to me, but the buck stops here. This kind of labeling gets a child stuck and limits her. Keep telling a little one she is clumsy, she’ll begin to believe it and not move into the world with confidence.”
I don’t know if those were my exact words, but it was the essence of my narrative that day, almost 35 years ago. Point is, words and labels get passed down from generation to generation and can impart a negative emotional load on an individual into adulthood.
We need to reflect on the words we use, unconscious of their possible consequences. Do our words have a long history in our family of origin? Are they derogatory, hurtful, limiting, in any way? Are they creating self-fulfilling prophecies? If we call a child stupid, lazy, spoiled, clumsy, and so on, repeatedly, a child can then internalize those labels and eventually create a negative self-image.
This is not to say that the child does not need discipline, boundaries, and firm guidance. Yes, behaviors need correction.
What has prompted my reflection on the theme of words and labels passed from one generation to the next is that the little toddler who fell in the story is now going to have a baby daughter herself. And she is a rock climber among other things.
So how will I, as a grandmother, and my daughter, as a mother, learn to edit out whatever vestiges of family history that are limiting? What other words, besides “clumsy,” need to be stricken from the “label” train that rides that tired—yet untrue—track of family mythology? This is a question for all parents and grandparents.
Kayta Curzie Gajdos holds a doctorate in counseling psychology and is in private practice in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. She welcomes comments at MindMatters@DrGajdos.com or 610-388-2888. Past columns are posted to www.drgajdos.com. See book.quietwisdom-loudtimes.com for information about her book, “Quiet Wisdom in Loud Times: The Rise of the Wounded Feminine.”
Dr. Kathleen Curzie Gajdos ("Kayta") is a licensed psychologist (Pennsylvania and Delaware) who has worked with individuals, couples, and families with a spectrum of problems. She has experience and training in the fields of alcohol and drug addictions, hypnosis, family therapy, Jungian theory, Gestalt therapy, EMDR, and bereavement. Dr. Gajdos developed a private practice in the Pittsburgh area, and was affiliated with the Family Therapy Institute of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, having written numerous articles for the Family Therapy Newsletter there. She has published in the American Psychological Association Bulletin, the Family Psychologist, and in the Swedenborgian publications, Chrysalis and The Messenger. Dr. Gajdos has taught at the college level, most recently for West Chester University and Wilmington College, and has served as field faculty for Vermont College of Norwich University the Union Institute's Center for Distance Learning, Cincinnati, Ohio. She has also served as consulting psychologist to the Irene Stacy Community MH/MR Center in Western Pennsylvania where she supervised psychologists in training. Currently active in disaster relief, Dr. Gajdos serves with the American Red Cross and participated in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts as a member of teams from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.Now living in Chadds Ford, in the Brandywine Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, Dr. Gajdos combines her private practice working with individuals, couples and families, with leading workshops on such topics as grief and healing, the impact of multigenerational grief and trauma shame, the shadow and self, Women Who Run with the Wolves, motherless daughters, and mediation and relaxation. Each year at Temenos Retreat Center in West Chester, PA she leads a griefs of birthing ritual for those who have suffered losses of procreation (abortions, miscarriages, infertility, etc.); she also holds yearly A Day of Re-Collection at Temenos.Dr. Gajdos holds Master's degrees in both philosophy and clinical psychology and received her Ph.D. in counseling at the University of Pittsburgh. Among her professional affiliations, she includes having been a founding member and board member of the C.G. Jung Educational Center of Pittsburgh, as well as being listed in Who's Who of American Women. Currently, she is a member of the American Psychological Association, The Pennsylvania Psychological Association, the Delaware Psychological Association, the American Family Therapy Academy, The Association for Death Education and Counseling, and the Delaware County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Board. Woven into her professional career are Dr. Gajdos' pursuits of dancing, singing, and writing poetry.
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How much would the organs, tissues, and body parts of Jesus have gone for today? Imagine the Son of God’s infant body. That is prime organic material we are talking about. Since God is Love and Jesus is God, his infant heart and brain would probably have had an astronomical demand. Mary and Joseph could have made millions of dollars with that abortion let alone Planned Parenthood. Imagine, Planned Parenthood’s Gatter could actually get 2 Lamborghini’s!
The then Virgin Mary could have been killed, stoned to death, when she got the infamous news that she was carrying the very Son of God in her womb. Joseph could have abandoned her. Facing so many challenges, aborting Jesus would have made logical sense. The life of the Mother, Mary would have been spared. Joseph and Mary could have gotten married without anyone questioning them. The Magi might have been disappointed to find no child if they came at all but hey with Jesus aborted Herod’s job would have already been done!
Thankfully Mary heeded God’s word, and followed His will above that of man and society. Joseph assumed responsibility for his soon to be wife and son. Mary understood what Planned Parenthood and all who support it have failed to understand in their rejection of God, that life begins at conception. Jesus was still Jesus the moment the Holy Spirit came upon Mary providing this miraculous conception. Jesus, God incarnate, was like any child, a baby from the very moment of conception. His DNA makeup and code at conception was there when Jesus was born and when Jesus died on the cross.
Mary understood that the scriptures reveal that, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.” (Jeremiahs 1:5) This means that even before conception, God had a plan for Jesus and every child conceived in the entire world. Mary and Joseph understood that God himself is the creator of not just the heavens and the Earth on day 1 in Genesis 1 but also all human beings. David wrote in his 139 Psalm that God knew him better than anyone. That God himself was responsible for David’s formation and birth like it has been, is, and will be for all children.
It is God who forms every child’s inward parts. He is the one who knits the child’s body together in the mother’s womb. As you see the ultra sounds of children, the 3-D images and the animations on babycenter.com, you are watching God fearfully and wonderfully making the child. Therefore when Planned Parenthood doctors, surgeons and staff abort, terminate, kill and destroy a baby they are destroying the very handiwork of God.
Defunding Planned Parenthood is a must but even more important than that is the need for America to wake up and recognize the culture of death that is being perpetuated under the guise of the freedom of choice. From the killing of millions of children in the womb, the children who die due to violence at home or on the streets, the wars around the world, to Euthanasia, we are surrounded by death. Jesus might not have been aborted by Mary yet every time we choose death instead of life we abort Jesus and we reject God.
Jesus died once and for all that whoever believes in Him might not die but live and not just live now but have eternal life. (John 3:16) We must defend all life. We will only be able to do this if we turn to Jesus who himself is the way, the truth, and the Life. (John 14:6)
Rev. Marcos O. Almonte is senior pastor at Brandywine Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist Church west of Philadelphia. Pastor Marcos is a graduate of Palmer Theological Seminary with more than 10 years working with families with an expertise in theology, trauma and addictions. Pastor Marcos and his wife Mary have three children, Carmen, Joseph, and Lincoln.
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