When
Today
Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 4:00pm
1 hr 30 mins
Where
Virtual Thanksgiving Devotional Program
This program includes interfaith scriptures from the Jewish and Christian Bibles and Native American sacred texts on Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks to God.
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The theme this year is "Spiritual and Food Harvests for Beloved Greater Community." We also read President George Washington's and President Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamations during the program. The meeting ends with a call for local/Chesapeake/American national community service and donations for local, regional, and national food banks.
Special Guest Speakers:
Pastor Steve Verkouw - Pastor Steve Verkouw has served as the head of the Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania since 1995. In this capacity, Pastor Verkouw founded the Lancaster Housing and Neighborhood Development Services (LHANDS) in 1999. He currently directs the LHANDS non-profit housing corporation which serves low to moderate income residents, and has six properties with 12 rental units. In 2020, Pastor Verkouw helped Grace Lutheran Church add a large stormwater retention project to its building renovation. As a result, over 100,000 gallons of water per year are returned to the earth - instead of flowing through the local sewer plant to Chesapeake streams and rivers. Pastor Verkouw received his Doctor of Ministry degree at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his Master of Divinity degree at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
Michael Orona - is a Senior U.S. State Department strategic and foreign policy advisor for the inter-governmental agency, bilateral and United Nations multilateral forums and agreements on the human rights of Native American Indian/Indigenous Peoples. Member of Baha'i' Faith and Apache American Indian Nation.Click HERE to download a flier for this event and share with friends!
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