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!
On Thursday, July 23rd, join us at Beloved from 6:30-8:30 pm for a spoken word fundraiser to support some of Birmingham’s best youth poets!
This is a unique event featuring Birmingham’s own women’s spoken word collective, Sister City Connection, performing in concert with youth poets from Birmingham’s Real Life Poets.
Continue reading Sister City Connection: Spoken Word Fundraiser July 23rd
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.
Each year, we celebrate our founding with music, worship, food and fellowship.
Sunday, June 7th, 2015
Service & celebration starting at 6 pm. Potluck supper to follow.
See you there, Beloved!
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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.
