Begin the week with a joyous celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem with children shouting and people waving palm fronds. 

This year we will hear a timely and prophetic word from Rev. Marilyn Baugh Kendrix. 

Over the last 13 years, Rev. Kendrix has shared an inspiring and challenging word to churches in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Joyfully and urgently, Rev. Kendrix shines a light on the injustices of our day to raise awareness regarding mass incarceration, systemic racism and poverty.  Her message will focus on the thread that flows from the history of racism in America to the situation making the USA the nation with the highest rates of poverty among developed nations.  An underlying cause of our inability to solve the problem of poverty is the myth that most of our nation’s poor people are Black, allowing us to conclude that their poverty is their fault. As followers of Jesus Christ and inheritors of the words of the Prophets, we must be compelled to work to eliminate poverty in our land.