Giving a shower for Mary, the mother of Jesus
Her daughter calls Mary Ellington the "Church Lady."
But she's not anything like the smug, pious character with the cat's eye horn-rimmed glasses on the old Saturday Night Live skits.
Nope, Wendy Ellington gave her mom that name because she's always having "epiphanies" that benefit others.
First, there was the baby shower for Mary that the Arlington resident started in 2006 at her church, St. Luke's Episcopal, on University Boulevard North. Her heart went out to the teenage Mary riding a donkey on the arduous trip to Bethlehem for Jesus' birth. She thought of the wise men bringing gifts on the day of Epiphany and of the struggles of pregnant young girls today.
For last week's shower, Ellington had other epiphanies - creating shoebox layettes, knitting caps to keep newborns warm and forming a Guild of the Christ Child to offer hope to "the neediest of God's children at home and around the world" by donating food, clothing and blankets.
http://www.jacksonville.com/community/my_southside_sun/2009-01-10/giving_a_shower_for_mary_the_mother_of_jesus
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