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Martin Luther King Day

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebrated through Art

Webster Groves Christian Church hosted a gallery opening and worship service to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

  • THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
  • Doug Miner
  • Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Five churches from St. Louis County and St. Louis City, along with two artists, collaborated at Webster Groves Christian Church (WGCC) in Glendale to remember Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday night. About 150 people from WGCC, Affton Christian Church, Centennial Christian Church, Memorial Boulevard Christian Church and Union Avenue Christian Church celebrated Martin Luther King Day in a service called “It’s Time to Sing a New Song.” St. Louis illustrators John Dyess and Kevin Belford showed their work in a hallway of the church that served as an art gallery. Dyess showed work from textbooks he had illustrated, and from a book written by Eleanora E. Tate called To be Free, which is about a runaway slave. Belford's display featured …

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Affton Christian Church (in Affton-Shrewsbury Patch) and Webster Groves Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (in Kirkwood Patch)

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Sheri Gassaway

9:20 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Thanks John, we've made the correction.   more ›

Monday, January 17, 2011

MLK Community Worship Celebration Honors Youth

Keynote speaker stresses importance of community service in realizing King's dream.

To make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream a reality, we all must take action, Evelyn Opper, a fifth-grade student at Hudson Elementary School, wrote in her award-winning essay. “He was telling us to step up and make a difference in our community,” she said. Opper was one of seven winners honored during the 16th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Community Celebration in Webster Groves on Sunday at Steeger Sixth Grade Center. Keynote speaker Kevin Walker, founder of Project Appleseed, a national organization devoted to parental involvement in education and volunteerism, agreed that King’s dream can center on more people taking an interest in America’s youth and their respective communities. “Service is the most important thing that we …

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Webster Groves High School, Hixson Middle School, and Old Community Baptist Church

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