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Martin Luther King Day

Monday, January 17, 2011

West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church Holds MLK Service

Intern Minister Ellen Carvill-Ziemer speaks on the importance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message.

Churches throughout the United States spent Sunday honoring the fallen civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in Rocky River is a congregation that prides itself as being a welcoming, non-oppressive, liberal, religious sanctuary. “We gather to grieve and mourn again each year. We wonder what might have been if not for one bullet. It is not only the loss of a leader, but of a symbol of hope,” said intern minister Ellen Carvill-Ziemer. For this occasion, she conducted a sermon aimed at highlighting the message of King’s struggle. She elected to focus on the last three years of King’s life for this service. “I do a combination of personal reflection and study,” said Carvill-Ziemer. She …

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