America's Sunday Supper
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and Celebrating Human Relations Day
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On Sunday, January 15, 2012, you are invited to participate in a community-by-community, nationwide conversation about our most pressing social issues in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is an opportunity for individuals to reach out to new persons and build community over a shared meal.
Inspired by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., America's Sunday Supper invites people from all backgrounds to come together to share a meal, discuss issues that affect their community and highlight the power each person has to make a difference!
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Potluck dinner. Bring food to share. We'll provide the paper and plasticware and beverages.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Rev. Kim James at pastor@wesleyumcpueblo.org or call (719) 561-8746.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Rev. John Losey at pastorsir@insightbb.com or call (859) 356-0029.
Join us for hot soup, hearty bread, and warm fellowship!
To RSVP for the supper, contact the Mission and Outreach Committee at jmoran@epix.net or (570) 945-5854.
We are inviting representatives from the various ethnic groups of our Community of Battle Creek, MI (Native American, Burmese, Hispanic, Korean, Dutch, and African American) to bring foods representing the various cultures. In addition, groups will bring a facilitator from each culture for tables called the Tables of Clarification. After the meal, we will be hosting the community-wide annual MLK service. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached in this pulpit during his only visit to Battle Creek 52 years ago.
To RSVP for the supper, contact hosts Billie R. Dalton or Stacy Cabellaro at bdalton@firstumcbc.org or call (269) 963-5567.
Event details coming soon!
This event is hosted by Trinity UMC, Hope Food Pantry Austin, AHB Community School, Center for Inquiry Austin, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, Theatre Action Project, Monica Faucheaux and Laura McMorris.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail SundaySupper@tumc.org.
The Sunday Supper will include a light meal served at 5:40 (free will donation), musical performance by "Perfect Fifth" (local accappella group), and video presentation (Jasmine's Story from umcom.org).
Presentation and discussion will be led by Rev. Paul Perez, deacon at Newburg UMC in Livonia, MI & JFON (Justice For Our Neighbors) organizer/worker.
You are welcome to our dinner table! Conversation will center on family, community needs, and how we can be supportive to one another.
Don't worry - if the Steelers are in the play-offs, the game will be on, too!
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To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Rev. John Seth at seth@gallowaychurch.org.
We will enjoy a light supper and discuss education.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Lynn Mikels at l.mikels@fumcah.com.
This Sunday Supper will be a coverd dish supper to fellowship & discuss community issues. Each guest should bring a dish to share and a soft, stuffed animal (12" or smaller) for local hospital pediatric departments.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Pastor David Kelley at pastor@mayschapelmethodist.net.
This presentation will feature Angela Lunda, MA, Dementia Education Specialist of Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Research. It will highlight normal age-related forgetfulness, warning signs of early dementia as well as a look into preventing Alzheimer's through lifestyle.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Bev Simpson at simpbev@gmail.com or Rev. Debra Jene Collum at chatfieldpastor@gmail.com.
Supper served at 5:00 p.m., then there will be a tribute and showing of the movie Paper Clips form 6:15-7:00 p.m.
To RSVP for the supper, email Rev. Robin Lyons at winchesterumc@frontier.com.
Local elected officials and school personnel will come to discuss community issues.
To RSVP for the supper, e-mail Mary Carter at mpcarter12@charter.net.
Join us for dinner and conversation.
To RSVP for the supper email Rev. Diane Berdan at revberdan@aol.com
Join us for a Sunday Supper, presentation, and fellowship with our community in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
To RSVP, email Rev. Dr. Willie J. Bailey at rogersum@verizon.net
Please join us after worship for a potluck lunch. Bring your favorite dish for a time of sharing food and our stories.
To RSVP: contact Kristina Carter, office@parkerlane.org
Church office: 512-442-0996
Join us for a potluck dinner featuring community singing, viewing and discussion of a video on Malaria
To RSVP: contact Rev. Lauren Chaffee - pastorlc@wildblue.net
Church phone: 760-376-2751
Please join us and share in a meal, watch a documentary/speech from MLK, then discuss situations facing our community
To RSVP contact Rev. Matt Landry - pastormattlandry@gmail.com
Please join us and our Youth for Supper and conversation on a social justice issue.
To RSVP contact Nathan Steury - Nate@stmarksa1a.org
Free Pizza and Salad Supper
TO RSVP: contact Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church at 207-799-8396 or by email capeelizabethumc@aol.com
A Potluck to share a meal, discuss issues that affect the community and highlight the power each person has to make a difference! Followed by a contemporary worship service themed around the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
TO RSVP: contact Benjamin Sierra at bsierra85@hotmail.com
Supper and support for people who are unemployed or underemployed in Yakima - also for those who are concerned about issues surrounding unemployment and want to help!
To RSVP: contact Ingrid Fortmeyer ingrid.fortmeyer@wesleyofyakima.org
Trinity United Methodist Church is hosting an international meal followed by the documentary "Lionesses" which highlights the experiences of the first women ever to participate in combat during the war in Iraq. The purpose of this event is to bring residents of our community together to share in a meal and an issue that is relevant to our community and our nation.
To RSVP: contact Trish Michael at trinitychurchoffice@gmail.com or call the church office at 630-553-7645
Discussion and key people in our community address the food security and nutritional issues of those "the least of these' in our community
To RSVP: contact Rev. Gil Wise leadpastor@solidrockumc.org
For more information, please see attached poster.
Please join us for a community meal and conversation on a social justice issue. Soup and bread will be served at 11:30, with program beginning at 12:15, followed by conversation by all participants.
To RSVP: Contact Carol Jaeger cojaeger@att.net or Pastor Carol Mariano HallerLakeUMC@aol.com
Join us for a pot-luck meal, with invited guest speakers, viewing documentary video clips, and discussion of local housing needs. Local New Paltz village, town building inspectors, other New Paltz and Ulster County officials have been invited to come share their viewpoints on the most current pressing housing concerns in our area. Short video clips showing how different communities in other areas have addressed some of their issues will be used to launch a conversation among everyone attending. We would like to brainstorm ideas for specific actions we want to take and the next steps needed to put those ideas into action.
To RSVP: email newpaltzumc@gmail.com
Everyone Welcome! Buffet Style Pasta Dinner will be served
To RSVP: Email stpauloffice@verizon.net
Join us for chili, crackers and refreshments along with open discussion on providing needed food for soul and body in the local communities
To RSVP: email Pastor Gallaher of Real Life Community of Faith United Methodist Church pastortina@forreallife.com
This is a six week study of the Social Priniciples of the United Methodist Church with emphasis on domestic violence, immigration and equality issues, global AIDS and prision ministry. We will meet on Sundays from 6 - 7:30 pm and on Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm.
To RSVP: contact Rev. Trudy D. Robinson revtrudy@qwestoffice.net
Come celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy of service and social justice while enjoying and sharing in a southern meal, viewing a film, and conversation!
To RSVP: Email umw@mentorumc.org
Please join us for Brunch and a morning bible study.
RSVP by emailing wesleyumcsheboygan@gmail.com
Come join us for dinner and discussion on how we can make a difference in the community.
To RSVP: email msbeckylynch@hotmail.com
Join us for dinner - Chili or soup will be provided. If you can attend, you are welcome to bring bread, salad or dessert. Frances C. Moore of St. James United Methodist Church will talk about and offer the opportunity to get involved with RESULTS.org, an organization that advocates for the poor. The local chapter in Bellevue works on the global side, fighting for global health and education.
To RSVP: contact Frances C. Moore at fcmoore2@cox.net or by phone at 402-291-2113
Join us for Chili and Cornbread
To RSVP: email: pastor@chesterbethel.org
Worship with gospel choir, spoken work dramatic reading and guest speaker, Charles Bryson, Director of Public Safety for the City of St. Louis. Sunday Supper following worship at 5:30 p.m.
RSVP: Rev. Tish Green welcome@connectingnow.org
United Methodist Communications is a proud sponsor of this event, and other Rethink Church events across the globe. As the lead communications agency of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Communications informs, inspires, and engages the people of the United Methodist Church and the world.
Points of Light Institute proudly honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as the originator of the America's Sunday Supper movement.
Points of LIght Institute "embraces service and civic engagement as fundamental to a purposeful life and essential to a healthy world. [Points of Light Insitute has] the history, the scale and reach, the leadership and the strategy to mobilize millions of people to tackle concrete, significant challenges.
With more than 20 years of history, a bi-partisan presidential legacy, the largest national volunteer footprint in the nation, Points of Light has the vision and strategy to create a quantum leap for the service movement through 2012."
The HandsOn Network, an important piece of the Points of Light Institute organization, is a valuable partner in a day dedicated to service and conversation.
According to the HandsOn Network website, "HandsOn Network, the volunteer-focused arm of Points of Light Institute, is the largest volunteer network in the nation and includes more than 250 HandsOn Action Centers in 16 countries. HandsOn includes a powerful network of more than 70,000 corporate, faith and nonprofit organizations that are answering the call to serve and creating meaningful change in their communities. Annually, the network delivers approximately 30 million hours of volunteer service valued at about $600 million."
The General Board of Church and Society (GBCS) is one of four international general program boards of The United Methodist Church. The General Board has headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York City.
The General Board is defined by its five areas of ministry: (1) Public Witness and Advocacy (2) Administration (3) Ministry of Resourcing Congregational Life, (4)United Nations Ministry, (5) Communications.
About Sunday Supper
What's on Your Plate?
by Brenda Trigg
What’s on your plate Sunday evening, January 15, 2012—the night before Martin Luther King, Jr., Day?
No commitments? Great! That means you’re free to take one small step in transforming yourself from “dreamer” to “doer” by sharing in America’s Sunday Supper. Celebrating Dr. King’s legacy of service and social justice, America’s Sunday Supper is your opportunity to act on your innermost desire to make a difference in your world. How? By starting where you live. By getting to know your neighbors, whether they’re across the hall, across the street or across town.
Consider America’s Sunday Supper the gigantic cosmic push—or gentle spiritual nudge—you need to reach out and join hands with those who may be outside your email and phone contacts but who care deeply about what’s going on in your community. America’s Sunday Supper invites people from all walks of life to come together, have a bite to eat, watch a movie and talk about the most pressing social issues they face locally.
America’s Sunday Supper is about having a conversation that includes diverse viewpoints and voices on social concerns. It’s not about the size of the group or numbers of people who attend; it’s about the collective focus on key priorities for progress. It’s not about “me;” it’s about “we.” It’s about we the people who, by being “other-centered,” as Dr. King said in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, are able to build up what those who are “self-centered” have torn down.
What do we, as members of America’s communities, dream about? Seeing more families break the shackles of poverty through literacy, higher education and employment? Reducing violence? Becoming healthier through better diet and exercise? Feeding more of the hungry? Sheltering more of the homeless? Being better parents to our children and children to our parents?
Let’s share our dreams at America’s Sunday Supper, January 15, 2012—and then get busy working together to realize them.
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