Beloved Community Potluck Dinner and Conversation

UUFD is hosting this month's Beloved Community Potluck Dinner and Conversation on August 20, 5-7:30 p.m. The conversation will focus on topics related to the recent events in Charlottesville.

The Beloved Community encompasses people of different faiths, different colors of skin, different nationalities, different political beliefs, different sexual orientations. It encompasses the young and the old, the rich and the poor; the abled and disabled, the educated and uneducated; it encompasses those who have and those who have not. It encompasses and intentionally seeks to include the weak and the voiceless in a place at the table. These beloved community dinners, events and conversations should intentionally reflect this diversity. Several faiths and many individuals have used the term beloved community, a term that Martin Luther King also decided to use. According to Dr. King, "The end goal of the civil rights movement is redemption and reconciliation; the end goal is beloved community." The purposes of these dinners and conversations is to offer multiple opportunities for folks from all different walks of life to get to know and appreciate one another, to commit ourselves to "seek first to understand and then be understood", and to work together to move forward for the common good of our community.

This is a potluck dinner, but bringing a dish or two to pass is not a prerequisite for your participation. 
*If you are bringing a dish or two to pass, we ask that you email, text or call to let us know what you are bringing and how many people it will serve; this way we can keep track of any gaps that may need to be filled. 
Please feel free to call, text, or email Beth to let her know if you are coming. 
Beth Campen kecampen@gmail.com 779-212-0904

"Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place." Henri Nouwen

Location: 
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Dekalb
Hosted by: 
Social Justice
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