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Nashua | The Heart of Nashua
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Tom Lopez talks about the Tree Streets, and how they are the Heart of Nashua.
Tom Lopez talks about the Tree Streets, and how they are the Heart of Nashua.
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Our Hometown
Nashua | The Heart of Nashua
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Tom Lopez talks about the Tree Streets, and how they are the Heart of Nashua.
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The Honduras Outreach Team is an opportunity for emerging leaders to go to a place that has severe need and kind of meet those needs and is kind of in the process of leaving their homes and their comfortable communities and the places where they have their networks and their connections.
They grow as leaders.
They're uncertain.
They maybe have to, you know, navigate the Spanish language or even the Spanish language spoken in a way that they're not used to.
They have to navigate a community and culture that does things very differently because they don't have even things like highway systems or roads in some of the more rural areas.
They don't have any electricity, they don't have running water.
So a lot of the givens that we have here in the U.S. were never given.
And, you know, there's an eager young people trying to to develop those things, you know, in third world countries.
And when we take ourselves out of our homes and our privileges and our experiences and go elsewhere to experience other ways of life, we grow, we see new opportunities, new ideas, and maybe have a little more insight into the things we take for granted.
The program we stay at and that we coordinate with there is called Project Eden, and it was actually founded by Father Dan St Lawrence, who was for years the pastor over at St Luis Church.
So there was a really strong connection there.
Like to the point where I was like giving double looks because I would go to Honduras and Father Dan would be there and he'd be celebrating Mass and Easter and doing Stations of the Cross.
I remember coming back to the country here and looking outside my window at the soup kitchen and there's like the Tree Streets rolling out en mass to celebrate Stations of the Cross.
That was Father Dan's idea.
He took something from Honduras and brought it back to Nashua.
And Nashua's Tree Streets.
We do turn out for Stations of the Cross every every Easter.
There have been a lot of different waves of immigrants, whether it was Greek, whether it was French Canadian, Irish.
And now more recently, we have a lot of Latinos, Central Americans, types of families coming in.
And much more recently, we have a lot of immigrants and refugees, too, whether it's people from Africa, Uganda, different areas like that.
So because of that, there's a rich diversity of culture in the Tree Streets.
Often people don't necessarily stay in the streets for forever, like they need larger apartments or larger houses and that kind of stuff.
So then they move out to different parts of Nashua.
But I think citywide, most of the city has been touched by the Tree Streets one way or the other, because it's really our entry point and it's I call it the Heart of Nashua because not just because it's the central location, but because it's an artery.
It pumps people, it brings people in and it pumps them out to the different areas of our community.
So there's a very strong faith community.
There's a lot of different churches that celebrate different denominations, and there's a lot of people who are from Central America that really, you know, resonate with the situations and things that are going on in Honduras.
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