{"id":6897,"date":"2006-06-28T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/making-a-difference.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T23:36:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:36:52","slug":"making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/making-a-difference.html","title":{"rendered":"Making a difference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at "Singing in the Reign," Michael Barber has a post up about a pastor who’s given his all to transform a parish. Good news abounds…when we look for it. (And share it – thanks Michael!)<\/a><\/p>\n

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I could go on and on about how wonderful St. Peter and St. Paul Church has become. I could tell you about the beautiful John Paul II park<\/a>, built in the corner of what was once an abandoned lot next to the church parking lot. I could tell you about how Fr. Peter taught the bilingual community a good bit of Latin, so that they could pray together<\/em>. I could tell you about the brand new adoration chapel<\/a>, which brings in worshippers at all hours of the day and night–in fact, the local news stations did a piece on how remarkable it was. And we haven’t even discussed the amazing state of the parish school. <\/p>\n

To recount everything that has happened would truly take a full length book. Suffice it to say, Fr. Peter has transformed the community. People now talk about how violent Wilmington used <\/em>to be. They can’t remember a time when there was no adoration chapel, or hall, or confessional lines out the door.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at "Singing in the Reign," Michael Barber has a post up about a pastor who’s given his all to transform a parish. Good news abounds…when we look for it. (And share it – thanks Michael!) I could go on and on about how wonderful St. Peter and St. Paul Church has become. 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