{"id":15525,"date":"2025-11-26T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residents-march-for-jesus-on-main-street-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:48:11","slug":"residents-march-for-jesus-on-main-street-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/residents-march-for-jesus-on-main-street-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents march for Jesus on Main Street Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ec9c8347-66f6-5999-8aa3-6af926f6b277&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" alt=\"About a dozen people marched down Cortez\u2019s Main Street Tuesday, sharing  their faith and inviting others to join. (Journal photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">About a dozen people marched down Cortez\u2019s Main Street Tuesday, sharing  their faith and inviting others to join. (Journal photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Flags waved in the chilly November wind and cars honked eagerly in support, not for politics or protest, but for Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen people from at least three churches marched down Cortez\u2019s Main Street Tuesday afternoon, showing their faith and inviting others to join. The gathering served as a reminder of the area\u2019s faith-driven community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Jesus, and we are out here to proclaim him from the Gospel,\u201d said organizer Carolyn Lucas as the group stopped at Main and Market streets to let others catch up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few of us who God called to do this and we started telling other people about it, and now they\u2019re all coming out,\u201d Lucas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus is for everyone to get saved and to know who Jesus is as their lord and personal savior,\u201d said Jesse Quintana, another organizer of the march.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmen,\u201d echoed a few others in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us come from different churches,\u201d Lucas said.<\/p>\n<p>Members from the Evangel Assembly of God, Towaoc Community Church and Mesa Trails Cowboy Church took part, Lucas and Quintana said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re planning to keep doing this once a month,\u201d Lucas said.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Rick Wells of the Towaoc Community Church said his church\u2019s mission was \u201csharing the word of God with our community in Towaoc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lucas said the group plans more events and invites others to join.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might take a break for Christmas, but we\u2019ll start back up for January,\u201d Quintana said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We are out here to proclaim him from the Gospel\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19703,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions\/19703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}