Rabbi to Speak at Lutheran Church

On Sunday evening, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension will host a joint service involving Trinity Lutheran Church in Hixson and Christ the King Lutheran Church in Dalton.

Our speaker at the service will be Rabbi Craig Lewis of Chattanooga’s Mizpah Synagogue who will speak on Jewish Christian relations and reconciliation.

Given the horrific tragedy in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, this simple gathering we have been planning for months has instantly taken on a new level of significance.

The service always has been open to the public, but we want to extend an extra invitation to anyone seeking a place to gather and pray in the wake of this tragedy.

The service will be at 7 p.m. at Ascension Lutheran Church 720 S. Germantown Road East Ridge, TN 37412

All people regardless of race, religion, political affiliation, gender, sexual orientation, or other factors are welcome.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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