Posted on Sat, Mar. 29, 2008reprint or license print email Two cultures under one (new) roof
By CAROLYN CLICK - cclick@thestate.com

Tim Dominick/tdominick@thestate.com


Rev. Alfredo Gonzalez, priest to the Hispanic Ministry, Rev. Blaney Pridgen, St. Mary's priest and Rev. Ann Pilat, Deacon for the Hispanic Ministry. They are inside the new sanctuary.
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St. Mary’s Episcopal Church begins a new, more visible, era of ministry and mission Sunday with the consecration and dedication of a new sanctuary.

The congregation — which includes a vibrant Spanish ministry — will join with the Rt. Rev. Dorsey L. Henderson Jr. as he consecrates the new building and prepares the congregation of 1,000 parishioners for expanded mission opportunities.

“For over 30 years, St. Mary’s had the problem of not looking like a church, not being on the street,â€