"No more cry of distress, says the Lord!" (November 13 2022)
Transgender Day of Remembrance and candle lightening Service Location: United Church of Hyde Park Scripture: Isaiah 65:17-25 Sermon title: No more cry of distress, says the Lord! 1. Greetings Thank you to those who answered the call to light the candles, for you have brought more light to our community. When I listened to the 67 names, I was terrified. There are four teenagers on the list. When Asher Garcia died, he was a high school eighth-grade student in Frazee, Minnesota. He suffered sexual and physical abuse as a child, and those repressed memories dug their way to the surface, like a bad dream, but he could not wake up. Asher died at the age of 14, suicide. [1] While Ace Scott died, he has been in state custody for five years since 2017. While awaiting placement, he ran away from the hospital, where he was taken “for concerns related to a known medical condition.” Ace died at the age of 15. His body was found in an abandoned lot in Kansas City, Missouri. [2]