Yesterday some twenty people shared a single celebration of communion in two nations - seven of us in the United States and the rest in Mexico. The setting was Friendship Park , the bi-national park at the western-most edge of the US-Mexico border, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. We are calling our gathering "El Faro: The Border Church / La Iglesia Fronteriza" because "Faro" is a Spanish word meaning "lighthouse" and Friendship Park sits in the shadow of the famous lighthouse in Playas de Tijuana. ( "Like" EL FARO / FACEBOOK / "Join" EL FARO ) For six months in 2008 and 2009 I served communion at Friendship Park - in part to protest the construction of a new, secondary border wall that promised to eliminate public access to this historic meeting place. During that time I was able to offer the communion elements to people on both sides of the border fence. In February 2009 San Diego Border Patrol Agents formed a human wall t
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