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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2021
N VOLUME 62 ISSUE 35
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Church service goes to the dogs Canines, felines and their humans take part in Blessing of the Animals BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Dogs of all sizes made new friends the Church of the Hills Blessing of the Animals service. A couple cats attended, but they kept to themselves. The furry friends and their human companions gathered in the church’s parking lot, enjoying the sunshine and being together. They came for many reasons: to have their pets blessed to reconnect with the Rev. Dee Cooper, who was a pastor at the church several years ago, and more. Cooper used the story of Noah and the Ark to discuss the importance of animals, how he brought them in pairs onto the boat to be saved from the flood. “It was the intentionality of Noah to preserve all of the species,” she said, “to keep their kind alive on the face of all the Earth. God wanted to preserve what God had made.” She talked about the symbiotic relationship between humans and pets: People help pets have their best life, while pets help their owners be more compassionate and provide unconditional love. “We see animals as inferior,” she SEE ANIMALS, P14
Dee Cooper, the guest minister at Church of the Hills in Evergreen, blesses Milo, a 12-week-old Corgi owned by Joanna Barbaran of Denver. Cooper, a former pastor at Church of the Hills, returned on June 27 for the Blessing of the Animals service. PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
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