Community Soup Supper in Walpole

Building Community, Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and Collecting Food

    The local congregations of Walpole will host a Community Soup Supper to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday, January 21 at 5:30pm.

    The clergy of St. John’s Episcopal, the Walpole Unitarian Church and the First Congregational Church invite their congregations and the community to attend this event that celebrates Dr. King during Christian Unity month. The supper will be held at the First Congregational Church of Christ on the green in Walpole. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. Soup, fellowship and the words of Dr. King will be shared – and there might even be a song or two!

    In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King preached: “This is our hope.... With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

    One way that to make sure that Dr. King’s dream is being realized is to come together for fellowship and the sharing of food across faith traditions. One place of common ground is the desire to combat hunger and poverty. The community supper is free of charge but people are encouraged to bring Canned Goods that will be donated to Our Place in Bellows Falls, VT and the Fall Mountain Food Shelf in Alstead, NH.