Q4. News reports in early August say that the property managers informed residents that funding for meals could come to an end.
A4. You have received our weekly letters each week, and as you know, from those letters, the board has funded the hotel accommodations and meals.
The Rev. Edlen Cowley wrote a column this summer urging that the denomination move away from the Cross and Flame, saying the emblem conjures for him and other African Americans the terror of Ku Klux Klan cross burnings.
“Last week we saw God provide them with meat and bread, manna and quail that fell from the sky, and all the Israelites had to do was go and pick it up. Today, it’s water—or, specifically, the perceived lack of it. Gripe, gripe, gripe. Complain, complain, complain.”