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SO/M Community Coalition
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Username: Coalition
Post Number: 115
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 6, 2005 - 12:35 pm: |     |
Please join us on January 17th at 1:00pm for 4th Annual MLK "Making It More Than a Dream" Celebration
Join your neighbors during a time for reflection and a time for service to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interfaith Worship Service
1 pm - 2 pm
Guest Speaker: Reverend Sandye A. Wilson Rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Andrew and Holy Communion, South Orange and other guests
Food Collection to benefit the MEND food pantry (non-perishable canned or dry food - no glass please)
12 - 4pm
Volunteer Fair
2 - 4 pm
Learn about volunteer service opportunities in our community.
First Presbyterian and Trinity Church
111 Irvington Ave. South Orange |
SO/M Community Coalition
Citizen
Username: Coalition
Post Number: 116
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 8:36 am: | |
Wilson to Lead Coalition 4th Annual MLK Observance
The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition will mark the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday with a time for reflection and a time for service.
Beginning at 1:00 pm on January 17, 2005, the Coalition’s Interfaith Outreach Committee will host its 4th annual interfaith worship service at the First Presbyterian and Trinity Church, 111 Irvington Ave., South Orange.
In addition to music and readings, the service will feature the Rev. Sandye A. Wilson, rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Andrew and Holy Communion in South Orange as the keynote speaker.
Before and after the worship service, Coalition volunteers will hold a canned food drive to benefit the MEND Food Pantry. From 12 - 4 pm, community members are invited to drop off non-perishable canned or dry food. No glass containers will be accepted.
Also following the worship service, the Coalition will host a volunteer fair, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian and Trinity Church, providing community members with an opportunity to explore volunteer opportunities available within Maplewood and South Orange.
“This is our fourth commemoration of Martin Luther King Day. Our hope is that residents will look at this day as a call to action, rather than as a day off. Each year attendance at our interfaith gathering has grown, and it has become a highlight of the year. We hope more residents will come and be inspired and will find an ongoing service opportunity that suits them, and will become more involved in working to make our hometowns even better”, explained Dr. Dawn Williams, co-moderator of the Interfaith Outreach Committee and a Coalition trustee.
“We’re also very excited that Rev. Wilson will keynote our worship service. She is an exciting new member of our community and truly exemplifies someone committed to action.”
In addition to serving as rector at St. Andrew and Holy Communion, Rev. Wilson is the national president of the Union of Black Episcopalians and past president of Province VI, comprised of eight states in the upper Midwest and plains states. She is a member of the steering committee for 20/20, the national movement to increase church participation and membership.
The Reverend Wilson is on the board of trustees for Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and was a consultant to Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie on Racism and the Church. She has taught courses on the faculty at Yale Divinity School, Iliff School of Theology at the University of Denver and the University of Minnesota.
A contemplative activist, she has served on corporate, non-profit, interfaith, secular and church boards, building a bridge between the board room and the street. She’s currently a consultant to various individuals and organizations on systems, working on the transformation of society and committed to advocating on behalf of children and the lost, lonely, left out and left behind. Fearless in speaking the truth to power, she encourages others to find the moral courage to do the same, aware of the cost of discipleship. She served as a Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow, exploring “The Paradox of Leadership: Balancing Individual Rights with the Common Good.” During that time she traveled the world documenting cross-cultural rural family life through the lens of her camera while she wrote prayer-poems.
She is a member of the Black Photographers of Minnesota and her work is often seen in exhibits around the community. Through her service with the Balm of Gilead, she has worked to help eradicate AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and in the Black Community in North America, facilitating and helping provide a safe place for ministers to discuss community and church issues related to AIDS.
The South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race is a private, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote stable integration throughout Maplewood and South Orange and to encourage broad participation by citizens in these communities in civic and community life. More information on the organization and upcoming events can be found online at www.twotowns.org. |
SO/M Community Coalition
Citizen
Username: Coalition
Post Number: 117
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 17, 2005 - 9:24 am: | |
Make it a day "on", not a day off. Join us at 1:00 and then for the volunteer fair to follow. Details above. |
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