CWU-Newtown Event—

Embracing Justice

Under God’s Tent

The Newtown unit of Church Women United will be joined by the Danbury CWU unit to offer a World Community Day celebration on Friday, November 2, at Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street. The public is invited to the event.

World Community Day is celebrated on or near the first Friday in November, and focuses on justice and peace in the global society. The theme chosen by Church Women United’s Ecumenical Celebrations Committee for 2007 is “Embracing Justice Under God’s Tent.” Reverend Kristina Peterson and Reverend Kathleen Clark have created a worship service, and invite participants to relate to the theme of “Under God’s Tent,” observed earlier this year during World Day of Prayer, to issues of peace and justice in the United States.

Reverend Matt Crebbin, the new senior minister at Newtown Congregational Church, will be the speaker for the celebration.

Cost for the program and dinner is $5. The pasta dinner (pasta with tomato or meat sauce, salad, bread, dessert and coffee) will be served promptly at 6 pm with the service to follow.

“Embracing Justice Under God’s Tent” is a worship service lifting concerns of homelessness, immigration, and responses to disaster based on familiar scriptures and Psalms 23, 82, and 85. The meditation, “We Have Names,” describes those who have been resident aliens in strange lands, wanderers throughout history, those exiled and uprooted, and remnants in society — then and now. Attendees will be invited to stretch themselves and join with others to learn and pray and act for a just and peaceful community for all humanity.

Church Women United was founded in 1941 as an ecumenical movement involving Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and other Christian women in the United States and Puerto Rico. Organized into 1,200 local and states units, CWU works for peace and social justice from a Christian base. It is a recognized United Nations non-governmental organization.

Babysitting will be available. CWU-Newtown is asking that anyone who wants the babysitting service call in advance so that they know how many children are expected.

For more information contact Darlene Jackson, the CWU-Newtown president, at 426-5192.