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If you are feeling worried in these uncertain times, you are not alone. If you are filled with the desire to do something, to help, but you are aware of your limitations as you stay home for your safety and the safety of your community, you are not alone. These feelings of fear, uncertainty and the desire to do something were a main point of discussion this week when members of the Educate a Child Initiative gathered digitally for a meeting we were supposed to be having in person.
Since its beginnings after the 221st General Assembly, the Educate a Child Initiative has been rooted in finding ways Presbyterians, can follow our rich history of supporting education by advocating locally and nationally for teacher and children. Through this work, we have sought quality education for all children and healthy work conditions for all educators and school employees.
With this in mind, the Education Roundtable of the Educate a Child Initiative took a break from planning meetings for which we ..

Early last week, the County Department of Health mandated the 48-hour closure of the church where I work because one of the (then) handful of confirmed cases of COVID-19 was the parent of a child who attends our church’s day care center. I spent a lot of time thinking about the back door of our church: the one that all of the day care parents and children use, the one that all our youth use when they come and go from Sunday evening programming, the one that adjoins our handicapped-accessible ramp and parking lot and is most often used by the oldest and most feeble members of our congregation.
We all worked from home for those 48 hours, video conferencing for hours, devising strategies for moving forward with our church’s programming. I sent dozens of emails to check in on our youth and their families. I followed the news and monitored the responses of local school districts. I prepared devotionals for our youth, all the while thinking of that back door, its handles and railings. I ca..