Fwd: Wednesday, April 4th ~ Two Major Events to Choose From !

[Amy E Jones]

 

Dear Friends,

    We think the importance of Martin Luther King's legacy cannot be overemphasized and his message needs to be in our conversation and in our community, national, and global plans for resolving our mutual problems. Because of these feelings we invite you to stand up on April 4th and come to one of these parallel events.
  After the announcement of the events sponsored by the SCLC and Mountaintop we offer excerpts from Martin's last speech as material to ponder, to prepare for the magic we can weave in our community!


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The Annual
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Service

We remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how he stood against violence. How he stood for education. How he stood for peace. Do you remember after 39 years?

Come one, come all to this historic event honoring the life and the legacy of one of the greatest humanitarians that changed the course of the world.

We would like for you to come out to hear stories of the past and living legends that marched alongside and who continue to fight the good fight for justice and equality.

Turn your lights on for peace April 4th thru Resurrection Sunday (Easter), April 8th. Violence is up 10percent nationally from last year so let's increase the peace.

Wed. April 4, 2007
Omega Harvard Chapel
1810 Harvard Blvd
 7p.m. to 9p.m.

For more information on this memorial service
Please call Rev. Charles R. Byrd at (937)268-0051
 
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MOUNTAINTOP   04 Apr 07                        Please Distribute Widely !

        * We would like you to know of and join us in our plans to have a year-long campaign to deal with the
CURRENT STATE OF RACE RELATIONS, POVERTY, and VIOLENCE in the Greater Dayton Area.

        * We believe that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was not only a great civil rights leader but a visionary whose concept of nonviolent approaches to issues of injustice is the only viable method for achieving lasting improvements in the human condition.
        *  During the coming year, as we prepare for the 2008, 40th anniversary of Dr. King's martyrdom, we think it's appropriate to reassess where we, as a community, are on the road to the Mountaintop. We ask you to read the attachments, print the posters to hang in spaces you have access, print the hand outs and distribute widely and to forward this e-mail to your local contacts.

ANNOUNCING:    Mountaintop Town Hall Conversation
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
7:30 - 9:00 pm
Sinclair Community College
Cafeteria - Bldg 7

 

Click here:  Reaching The   Mountaintop

* for additional info. about the Mountaintop event call: 435-2689 or 750-4730

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Now, some words from Martin:

    "I'm delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow."

     "...something is happening in our world. And you know, if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, 'Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?'.... Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, 'If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy.'
    "Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century in a way that men, in some strange way, are responding."

    "Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today...the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'....we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today."

    "We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying--We are saying that we are God's children. And that we are God's children, we don't have to live like we are forced to live."

    "Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity."

. . .

    "Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now,  because I've been to the mountaintop.
    "And I don't mind.
    "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
    "And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!"

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