A Dream Deferred

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday we gather to continue our worship series “Prophets are Still Speaking.” The New Testament lesson is Galatians 3:28-29. The Old Testament lesson is Amos 5:12; 14-15a; 18-24 which includes the well-known verse “Let justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “A Dream Deferred,” inspired by a poem by Langston Hughes and the Sanctuary Choir will sing “Good Trouble” by Thomas Keesecker.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail,” April 16, 1963

The Dream Keeper

Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.”

― Langston Hughes,
“The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”