A piece of Erie history now has a permanent place on the city\u2019s map.<\/p>\n
This morning, community members gathered at East 21st and German streets to honor Rev. Charles Kennedy and Mother Mary Beth Kennedy.<\/p>\n
The corner will now also be known as \u201cReverend & Mother Kennedy Way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place outside the Community of Caring, one of the organizations the Kennedys founded to support Erie\u2019s underserved residents.<\/p>\n
For decades, the couple ministered through what they called unconditional love, creating programs that addressed a wide range of needs across the city.<\/p>\n
We spoke with their great-grandson, who unveiled the new street sign. He shared what an honor it was to be part of the moment.<\/p>\n
Mother Kennedy also served as an international supervisor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she helped raise funds for orphanages and supported the launch of a medical clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A piece of Erie history now has a permanent place on the city\u2019s map. This morning, community members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85772,136,138,137,85771,85770,85773],"class_list":["post-192699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community-of-caring","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mother-mary-beth-kennedy","tag-rev-charles-kennedy","tag-street-naming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}