CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY: SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
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Poverty and violence continues to grow in countless cities around the world.
Alice Bloodsaw: They have a lot of shooting and different stuff like that in the area.
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Leaving many in these communities feeling isolated with no safe place to go.
Alice Bloodsaw: So the people that
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out there don’t have [anywhere] to go, we can reach out to them through you guys…
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Seattle, Washington is no exception.
Alice Bloodsaw: …for putting on this event
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So members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, Church Of Christ from across Washington State responded.
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“Caring For Our Community” Seattle, Washington
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Alice Bloodsaw- Seattle, Washington Resident- Guest
Alice Bloodsaw: Everybody has such a big smile. I love that. I love that and I love people so it was wonderful to look around and to see everybody having so much fun, the children and everybody pitching in together and everybody smiling and just having a wonderful time and that, by itself, is just gracious.
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Michael Hudson- Event Organizer
Michael Hudson: Today’s event is called the INCMX Seattle, and what that stands for is the Iglesia Ni Cristo Media Experience and what it is, the main objective, is to really reach out to the community, people of all ages and really introduce them to a lot of the free services that we have such as games and live TV show tapings (Face the Truth, That’s in the Bible, and Time to Draw Live), free health check ups and haircuts and things like that. It’s just to really reach out to the community and show that we exist.
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Jarai Cason- Seattle, Washington Resident- Guest
Jarai Cason: [It]brings people together. We want to be part of a bigger group, we want to be part of families, we want to have friends.
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Raymond King- Seattle, Washington Resident- Guest
Raymond King: Community is number one. Without community, there is no us.
There’s a huge need to take care of people nowadays and it’s up to everybody to make sure they contribute to that on a regular basis.
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Amalia Gonzalez- Seattle, Washington Resident- Guest
Amalia Gonzalez: At a time when a lot of people are struggling, to have them welcomed with no questions asked, and have access—I’ve noticed there are things like access to glasses, haircuts.
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Jermaine Williams- Seattle, Washington Resident- Volunteer Barber
Jermaine Williams: To see them get this free haircut and look in the mirror and they’re happy with it, it means a lot to me.
Amalia Gonzalez: It’s really clear to me that the people that I’m seeing here, that are the volunteers are working at creating a sense of community…it’s nice to see young people feeling safe and welcomed and I feel safe and welcomed and its wonderful.
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Jesse Hamelin- Kirkland, Washington Resident- Guest
Jesse Hamelin: Oh it’s amazing, probably one of the best events I’ve seen, like this type of church event. I’ve been to a couple of them but this one definitely might be one of my best, my favorite ones.
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Godwin Monday- Everett, Washington Resident- Guest
Godwin Monday: INCMX is one of the best shows that I’ve seen so far that really inspired me to do more.
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Michael Hudson- Event Organizer
Michael Hudson: I think it’s our obligation to always do good, especially for the ones who need it, and I think us reaching out to the community and providing these services and just letting them know that we exist and that we’re here to help them, it’s very, it’s amazing and I’m very happy to be a part of it.
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Alice Bloodsaw- Seattle, Washington Resident- Guest
Alice Bloodsaw: Meeting everybody, different nationality and everybody coming together and I think that’s just wonderful. It’s really wonderful. It beats, to me it beats the food, it beats the prizes, it beats everything and everybody opened arms to us, even though they didn’t know us, they treated us like family and so being treated like family is like being in your home and so I think it was wonderful and especially my friend here, she invited me and is just like my sister, because I love her to death, to death and I love her and I want to say thank you for inviting me and my family and if I had time I would have brought some more. It’s gracious and we love it.
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