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Pilgrimage to Africatown
Sat, Mar 09
|Union Missionary Baptist Church
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2019, 1:00 PM – Mar 10, 2019, 1:00 PM
Union Missionary Baptist Church, 506 Bay Bridge Rd, Mobile, AL 36610, USA
About The Event
Sister, Brothers, and Friends, you are invited to join the Pensacola Chapter of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (EPF) on a pilgrimage to Africatown March 9-10.
The program will be based on oral history and artifacts from family memories and from personal experience. Some of the congregation are direct descendants of the Clotilda immigrants. Some Africatown residents spoke their language from West Africa into the 1930s. We will meet people as closely connected to that time and culture as anyone in the U.S. On Sunday, we will worship in the historic church.
The church will provide, at no cost to the pilgrims, meeting space, Saturday dinner, and the considerable effort of organizing and making the presentations. In return, EPF Pensacola requests freewill donations for the scholarship fund of the historic church. The pilgrimage will be limited to 40 people. We have reserved 22 rooms at $100 each (including tax) at the…