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Christians protesting war pass
through city
George Diepenbrock
LJ
World
Thursday May 10, 2007
For the second time in a week, someone walking to Washington, D.C.,
in protest of the Iraq war has stopped in Lawrence.
“It’s been pretty receptive compared to other places.
I haven’t seen much anger really. People have been pretty
open-minded,” said Elliott Nesch, 22, Fort Collins, Colo.
Nesch and Raymond Schwab, 32, Loveland, Colo., have walked for
Beit Shalom Ministries since March 1, when they left Denver for
Washington, D.C., to protest evangelical churches supporting the
Iraq war.
On Tuesday, they walked from the Statehouse in Topeka east on U.S.
Highway 40 and did not quite reach Lawrence until Schwab’s
wife picked them up in their recreational vehicle in the evening.
They have spent nights in Lawrence this week with one of Nesch’s
relatives as they make their way through the area. The two keep
videos and blogs on their Web site, www.beitshalomministries.org.
During their walk, Nesch and Schwab have mostly traveled on frontage
roads along Interstate 70, and they spend evenings with anyone who
will take them in.
For the past nine days they have attempted to preach their message
in Topeka and Lawrence, including Monday on the Kansas University
campus.
“We believe as Christians we shouldn’t be for America.
We shouldn’t be for Iraq. We should be for the Lord and call
both peoples to repentance,” Nesch said.
They hope to reach Washington, D.C., by September and plan to walk
into the capital with similar groups to try to give a letter to
President Bush that asks for his resignation, Nesch said.
Bill McDannell and his wife, Jonna O’Dell, stopped in Lawrence
last week. McDannell is walking from San Diego to Washington, D.C.,
asking for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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