Lives of Courage & Faith Lenten Series

Lives of Faith and Courage is a series where we will learn about five very different, inspiring and faithful individuals and learn how they respond (or have responded) to various world challenges with amazing vision, imagination and action.   Some of these individuals are still alive, others have died.   Some of these individuals are well-known, others are not.

The format of each session will involve a presentation and a discussion.   We will end with a brief time of worship and prayer in the form of Compline.   All are welcome – please invite friends and neighbors who might be interested!

The schedule for our Lenten evenings will be:

• Simple dinner in the Undercroft, 5:15 – 6 pm
• Program in the Meeting Room, 6-7pm
• Compline, 7-7:15pm

Please come for any or all parts of the evening.

• Tuesday, March 15, Albert Schweitzer, presented by Karen Guthrie. Albert Schweitzer, a Noble Peace Prize awardee, was born in 1875 in a small village in Alsace, then part of Germany. By age 29, Schweitzer held doctorates in philosophy and religion, was an acclaimed organist, a world authority on Bach, had published three books, and had held positions as a church pastor, a principal of a theological seminary, and a university professor.  But many years earlier, aware of the desperate medical needs of Africans, he had decided that at age 30 he would undertake medical studies, become a doctor and devote the rest of his life to direct service in Africa.  In 1913, at the age of 37, Dr. Schweitzer and his wife, Hélène, opened a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, and spent most of the rest of his life there, dying there at age 90.