There’s an elemental humility to the St. Mark Lutheran Church’s sunrise Easter service.
At 6:30 Easter morning, about 30 parishioners stood in a rough circle around a flaming fire pit at a pavilion in East Toledo’s Prentice Park. They saw the sun come up on the day that, for Christians, marks the resurrection of Jesus.
It was chilly outside, but no one seemed to mind. One coatless woman in a green dress did her best not to shiver in the early morning cold and gamely refused an offer of a parka…