Volunteers Carry Cross to Raise Awareness of Community Issues

 
 

The organizers of an Easter-eve walk from Knox to North Judson hope their event will raise awareness of many problems that plague Starke County.

“One person can’t fix it all, but as a community we can come together, and we can show these people that we care about ’em,” organizer Jerry Bacon told the crowd prior to the start of the event. “We don’t want to see ’em all thrown in jail because they’re all addicted to drugs. We want to see ’em delivered from that. We want to see ’em set free from that addiction. We don’t want to see people without jobs. We want to see jobs brought into our community and people working and taken out of the situations they’re in.”

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Starke County’s Issues to be Borne Away on a Cross Carried by Volunteers This Weekend

  
 
With a variety of problems plaguing the Starke County community, one group of individuals is making an effort to show the community that they care. The event, which has been dubbed “Take Up Our Community’s Cross,” was coordinated by Jerry Bacon, who will be helping to carry a large cross inscribed with different problems plaguing the community from Knox to North Judson.

“We just want to bring awareness to our community, things going on in our community. I’m calling this ‘Take Up Our Community’s Cross.’ Different things we hear about; meth, we hear about different problems going on – unemployment, depression – just all kinds of things, and this is just an act of love to show people that we care,” Bacon explained.

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