We’ll have our Church’s annual birthday celebration, with blasts from our past. This year we’re combining it with Black History Month by remembering when the church sponsored a South Bend concert in the 1960s by Odetta. Who was this amazing woman, and why was she important?

As a wise person once said, “All stories are true, and some of them actually happened.” All cultures have stories which inspire them and define their national, regional, or ethnic character. We’ll explore several American ones on this holiday weekend, celebrating the birth of a new nation 241 years ago.