CHARLOTTE — All are invited to an upcoming performance of the award-winning Our Lady of Consolation gospel choir from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, at St. Gabriel Church.
The program is entitled “Authentically Black – Wholly Catholic: A Conversation in Music and Heritage Featuring Our Lady of Consolation’s Gospel Choir.”
Interspersed with hymns and music will be brief segments highlighting black culture and heritage, the conversion of Africans in America to Christianity, and the Church’s history with enslavement and place in the civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements.
The program is free, but RSVP to www.stgabrielchurch.org/RSVP or to Cathy Esposito at 704-362-5047, ext. 276. St. Gabriel Church is located at 3016 Providence Road.
HAYESVILLE — “Food Insecurity in Western North Carolina,” the eighth Bishop Begley Conference on Appalachia sponsored by Catholic Charities, will be held starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at Hayesville First United Methodist Church.
Anyone interested in learning more about food insecurity in the far western rural counties of North Carolina – its causes and its effects on vulnerable populations and efforts being made to address this concern – is welcome to attend.
Hayesville First United Methodist Church is located at 989 US-64 Bus. in Hayesville. Go to www.ccdoc.org/fwnc for details.