This Sunday from 2:30-4:30 join the Education Roundtable for a discussion on school funding and our state’s budget crisis at Beloved.
Featuring information from Robyn Hyden (Alabama Arise) and Trisha Powell Crain (Alabama School Connection).
Click here to read an article about the meeting and hope to see you there!
Update: August 19th, 2015- Good news! This event has been canceled due to the Birmingham City Council enacting a minimum wage increase ahead of schedule!
Great work and congratulations to those who organized for months to make this happen. Birmingham is now the first city in the deep South to raise the wage!
Beloved Leah Clements leaves to go to Candler School of Theology at Emory University next week, and we will miss her dearly. Her sermon last night was a call to action for us all.
She preached on this text from Mark 4:35-41:
“On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him.
A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’
Continue reading Guest sermon from Beloved Leah Clements: How Will We Respond?
You’re invited to meet the Cuba Caravan at Beloved!
WHEN: Wednesday, July 8, 6:00 PM
WHERE: Beloved Community Church, 131 41st Street South, Birmingham, AL 35222
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public. Contributions will be taken to support the Caravan mission.
With Cuba’s increased presence in world news today, Birmingham Peace Project and Beloved Community Church will jointly present the Twenty-Sixth Annual Friendship Caravan to Cuba. This caravan is one of many winding their way through the US this summer to collect and deliver needed aid items to the Cuban people.
The friendship caravans are organized by Pastors for Peace, a special ministry of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization launched in 1988 to pioneer the delivery of humanitarian aid to Latin America and the Caribbean.
IFCO director Gail Walker (pictured above) will be our featured speaker. Birmingham Jazz guru Bart Grooms will play Cuban Jazz. Guests are invited to join our potluck supper and to contribute Latin or Carribean food if possible. We will also serve mojitos.
Sponsored by Beloved Community Church and the Birmingham Peace Project.
Presented by Black Lives Matter-Birmingham and Magic City Agriculture Project.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015, 6:30 pm at Beloved Community Church.
All people are welcome.
She is slowly taking her leave,
The painful withering away
Of mind and body
That is Alzheimer’s.
She lies still in her own bedroom
Given the dignity of dying in her own home
By her beloved devoted daughter Lynn.
Grace, who is full of Grace,
Has been at their side
In constant loving care
For both dying mother
And grieving daughter.
Continue reading Holy Saturday Reflection from Rev. Angie: Claiming Them As Our Own
