The drumming signals the start of Sunday Mass at the Congregation of the Great Spirit. Father Edward Cook sits in the circle at the front of the church where he and the drummers play a song of welcome.
Inside the small, white stone church at 1050 W. Lapham Blvd., where Lithuanians once worshipped, more than 100 people come to pray at one of the few urban churches in the country to blend the Roman Catholic Mass with American Indian traditions.