This past Thursday at Anna's Arts was very exciting. I knew it was going to be a big day because our director had notified all of us that the primary funders of the Anna's Arts program were coming to check up on the effectiveness of the program. However, I was really shocked when I pulled up to the church and saw a WWLTV van in the parking lot. I went in and was informed that St. Anna's chapel had been victim to a hate crime just a few hours earlier. The church doors are unlocked during daylight hours for parishioners to come in a pray, and apparently, Thursday, the church had some uninvited visitors. People came in and carved swastikas into wood work, drew swastikas and racial slurs onto prayer cards, and desecrated a statue of an angel by breaking its fingers off and marking it with graffiti. It was extremely unreal that this happened. I'm not sure why this was done, they possibly were mocking the episcopalian church for its accepting nature of varying races, genders, and sexual orientations. Whatever the case, it was definitely unnecessary and created for a very hectic day with the kids! I hope the funders were pleased with what they saw, but with a TV crew in the middle of one of our classrooms our kids were very hyped up! Anyways, I'm sure I will hear whats going to happen with our funding, and hopefully it is good news!
Also, here is the link for the WWLTV story on the vandalism:
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