Led by Pastor Julie and Pastor Darryl Roberts
August 12 marks the one-year anniversary of the white supremacists’ rally in Charlottesville. This Sunday (8/12) Pastor Julie and Pastor Darryl Roberts from the historic Nineteenth Street Baptist Church will co-lead a brief communion service at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at 2pm. Our brothers and sisters of NSBC have invited our church to join them for a snack lunch at their church (4606 16th St NW) from 12:45-1:30pm, then ride with them on their church busses to the MLK Memorial. Deacons from both churches will serve the bread and cup to all want to participate—church folk and tourists alike. (Please note: the communion service will be 2.5 miles from the white supremacist/neo-Nazi rally taking place in Lafayette Square, near the White House.)
Schedule for August 12:
12:45-1:30pm First Baptist and Nineteenth Street Baptist share a snack lunch at NSBC (provided by New Baptist Covenant)
1:30pm Leave Nineteenth Street by bus
1:50pm Arrive at King Memorial
2:00pm Communion Service
2:25pm Prayer Walk around Monument
2:45pm Load Buses and return to Nineteenth Street (or FBC folk may elect to Uber or Metro back to the church or to home)
