June 29 – July 5, 2018
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Sanctuary Church
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the church would became St. Louis’ third
sanctuary church and congregation.
The assumption is that U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officials will not enter churches
to arrest refugees living there. Prior
immigration policy leading up to this
year required enforcement officers
to avoid deportation activities in
“sensitive locations,” defined as schools,
hospitals and places of worship.
But Gadon said churches now
are the last, respected safe spots for
undocumented immigrants, with
reports of U.S. schools, hospitals and
courtrooms already being “violated” by
immigration enforcers.
She said Eliot Chapel leaders
formalized their position by signing
the Declaration of Sacred Resistance,
the constituent document of the St.
Louis Coalition for Sanctuary. The
coalition is a partnership of multiethnic
and multifaith individuals, religious
leaders, congregations and community
organizations.
Volunteers at Eliot also transformed
a portion of their chapel into living
space.
However, taking a public stand is not
new for Eliot Chapel. For nearly 200
weeks, Eliot Chapel’s Social Justice in
Action Team has held weekly vigils to
publicly witness opposition to racism
and hate.
“We need strong hearts, open minds,
and willing givers to create a haven
of support and harmony for the next
sanctuary seeker. We don’t know when
our neighbor will call on us for shelter,
but we want to be ready when they do,”
said Paula Fulks, Immigration Justice
Team chairwoman at Eliot.
Fulks said Eliot Chapel congregants
stand proudly on the side of those who
believe “all people are my brothers and
sisters” and those who refuse to retreat
into the darkness of fear.
The decision to declare the 59-year-
old chapel a sanctuary coincides with
aggressive and controversial U.S.
immigration enforcement actions taken
Farewell Concert At Tower Tee
Scheduled For Sunday, July 8
Tower Tee will convert its driving
range into an amphitheater for a Sun-
day, July 8 “farewell concert.”
The event is free, open to the public,
with free parking available
on Tower Tee’s lot. Part of
the cost of the show will
be defrayed through the
sale of Anheuser-Busch
products. Concert patrons
are not permitted to bring
their own alcohol.
Bring a chair, blanket,
umbrella and lunch, or purchase food
from vendors. The musical lineup is as
follows:
1 p.m. Rogers & Nienhaus
4 p.m. Joe Dirt & the Dirty Boys
7 p.m. That 80s Band
Tower Tee is located at 6727 Heege
Road in Affton. Earlier this year, Tower
Tee owner and PGA member Steve Lotz
announced that there was no saving
Tower Tee. Immediately after the fare-
well concert, the family-held business
will close its doors.
“While it’s bittersweet, we are
pleased with the extra time allotted to
with refugees fleeing Central America
2018
based on a new presidential-declared
“zero tolerance” policy.
“Part of it is we want to communicate
to the Latino community that not
Education &
everybody is going along with this. We
want them to know that we see them and
they are not alone,” explained Gadon.
Eliot Chapel members’ involvement
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in the new sanctuary movement
actually began in early 2017 through the
St. Louis Coalition, for which members
pledged to participate in a spectrum
of solidarity actions. Those steps
included welcoming undocumented
people, advocating to stop deportations,
assisting with legal clinics, and Continued on pages 12 & 13
physically sheltering immigrants in
danger of immediate deportation.
In October 2017, Christ Church
UCC became the first member of the
St. Louis Coalition to provide physical
sanctuary when they welcomed Rene
“Alex” Garcia to keep him from being
separated from his U.S. citizen wife and
their five U.S. citizen children.
Gadon, and a number of Eliot Chapel
members, have been helping Christ
Church UCC in supporting Garcia.
“We witnessed how valuable
sanctuary is for this one family.
Knowing there are as many as 50,000
undocumented people living in the
St. Louis-metro area, we hope a broad
community of congregations are willing
to protect those who face deportation,”
she said.
The St. Louis Coalition for Sanctuary
is a project of nonprofit St. Louis Inter-
Faith Committee On Latin America,
which was founded in 1977.
“These are matters of grave moral
concern. Many of the families and
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