August 14, 1998 - News Briefs

LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth

News Briefs

Editors note: The following is from a recent editorial in the Coast Press. It is a call to help our neighbors, and as stated, our action is long overdue. I hope you will join us in sitting down with our neighbors to listen to their ideas on ways we might be able to assist them in their community.

Neighbor to Neighbor

If you care about people in need of a helping hand, mark Monday, August 24, on your calendar.

At 11:00 a.m. that day, a public meeting will address the subject of West Rehoboth, a low-income community just outside its affluent neighbor, Rehoboth Beach. We think action to help West Rehoboth lift itself up is long overdue, and this meeting may be a chance for citizens, business owners and government officials to start doing something about it. The group will meet at the Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church on Church Street just outside the Rehoboth Beach city limits.

Anyone who cares about people in need, any person with a conscience, ought to attend this meeting to start the wheels of change in motion.

Seeking Guidance in History

The Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware (UUSD) will host Reverend John P. Gaffney for a discussion of one of the founding lights of the Unitarian movement in the United States on Sunday, August 23. Rev. Gaffney will preach his sermon, entitled AWilliam Ellery ChanningCThe Reluctant Radical,@ at the regular UUSD Sunday worship service, starting at 10:30 a.m.

Channing was born in 1780, grandson of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He accepted a call to the ministry shortly after graduating from Harvard University and served in Boston until his retirement. He died in 1842. Through his sermons and writings, he became known as one of the guiding thinkers of the Unitarian movement.

Reverend Gaffney, an ex-Catholic priest, has over twenty years experience in ministry and counseling. He discovered Unitarian Universalism through the woman who would become his wife and describes it as Aa revelation. I had no idea there could be a religion that celebrated individual differences, encouraged freedom of thought, and welcomed all with warmth and love.@

The Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware are a new and growing liberal religious congregation. Sunday services begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Lewes Middle School, on Savannah Road, in Lewes. Religious education for children is provided, as is a nursery for small children. Everyone (absolutely and with no limits) is welcome. Call (302) 645-6334, for more information.

Literary Night at the Globe Features Hiram Larew, CAMP Poet Laureat

Many of our readers will recognize Washington, DC gay poet, Hiram Larew, as the Aunofficial@ poet laureat of LETTERS. Hiram will be one of the featured readers for LITERARY NIGHT at the GLOBE THEATRE in Berlin, MD on Saturday, September 19th at 7:00 p.m.

Berlin is just a few miles south of Rehoboth Beach, and a great side-trip for an early fall day. For more information, call 410-875-2411.

From Larew's poem "October":

...All along I have never understood

The outstanding shape of men

Some are as certain as tree roots curling into the ground

Others are perfect places in trouble...

LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 8, No. 11, August 14, 1998.