GIG HARBOR — Filled with worries about the political and economic uncertainty ahead, Patricia Grenseman and other congregants of St. John’s Episcopal Church started wondering what to do. They all felt frozen.

Grenseman, who has attended the church for the last 14 years, said they wanted to find something they could do locally to make a difference amid the national turbulence and live up to their church’s mottos, “be like Jesus” and “choose love.”

After a meeting of local faith-based groups and nonprofits last spring they had their answer: safe parking.

Starting as soon as this month, the church will open up three parking spaces for families with children living in their vehicle to park overnight, offering a lifeline to unhoused families in a community where there are few areas they can

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