(SRN NEWS) – The city of Brookings will pay 400,000 dollars in legal fees and has agreed to stop trying to restrict St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church from ministering to the homeless. City officials had tried to limit the church to providing food and water to homeless people just two days of the week. Pastor Bernie […]
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(SRN NEWS) – The city of Brookings will pay 400,000 dollars in legal fees and has agreed to stop trying to restrict St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church from ministering to the homeless.
City officials had tried to limit the church to providing food and water to homeless people just two days of the week.
Pastor Bernie Lindley tells Oregon Public Broadcasting “It certainly didn’t have to come to this, but we had to stand up for our religious freedoms.”