La Voz: Questa, New Mexico church revived by community

interview with Ernest Gurule

The front page story in an upcoming holiday edition of La Voz Colorado depicts a humble community church in Questa, New Mexico, near Taos.  Nearly 175 years old, St. Anthony’s Church was nearly destroyed by weather and the Diocese that no longer wanted it.  La Voz writer Ernest Gurule visited First Take with the story of community and faith.

“The locals, all 1800 of them, predominantly Latino and shrinking all the time, said, ‘no, we want to rebuild it,'” explained Gurule.  

The “Christmas miracle” happened last April, when workers found an image of the Virgin and Child in a piece of repurposed timber.  ”It’s a made for Christmas – made for the big screen kind of story.”

The YouTube video overview of the project and the image in the wood can be watched here.

The Facebook page for the campaign is https://www.facebook.com/save.church.

To support the project, contact Mark Sideris at msideris@aol.com.