A Word from Laura: Giving thanks for Waldon Adams and Rhonda Whitaker

Western Friends,

No matter where you find yourselves these days, you get this email because at some level you have a spiritual home at 24th and G Streets, NW.

Having Western as a spiritual home connects you in a meaningful way to the lives of Waldon Adams and Rhonda Whitaker, two members of the Miriam’s Kitchen community who were hit in a fatal car accident last Saturday at Hains Point. Some of you may have read the piece in the Post; here’s a more recent update from DCist. For those connected with them and their commitment to communities experiencing homelessness in DC, their death feels like a “gut punch.”

I know you will join me and so many connected to the ministry that happens on this street corner in giving thanks for the lives and witness of Waldon and Rhonda. You’re also invited to join all who gather on-line this Thursday night to support Miriam’s Kitchen and the transformation they help make possible!  I’m sure that the memories of Waldon Adams and Rhonda Whitaker will be honored. Even as we grieve, I give thanks for the ways their spirits live on in new ways, as we all honor their memory. In death as in life, we all belong to God.

Towards peace with justice and homes for all,

Laura Cunningham