Theme for February: Black History

Thought for the Week!

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.”

Audre Lorde

Scripture for the Week!

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

Prayer for the Week!

Give us grace, O God, to dare to do the deed which we well know cries to be done. Let us not hesitate because of ease, or the words of men’s mouths, or our own lives. Mighty causes are calling us—the freeing of women, the training of children, the putting down of hate and murder and poverty—all these and more. But they call with voices that mean work and sacrifices and death. Mercifully grant us, O God, the spirit of Esther, that we say: I will go unto the King and if I perish, I perish.

Educator and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois
(The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard)