BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Buttons were scattered across the floor inside Moravian University’s Foy Hall in Bethlehem on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The press of each one came with the biography of different people involved with civil rights.<\/p>\n
“We have all the kids. They’re from our church at Second Baptist. They’re doing the wax museums. They worked hard. They studied their parts,” said Pastor Paul Patrick.<\/p>\n
Pastor Patrick is with Second Baptist Church.<\/p>\n
He helped put together this interfaith community celebration honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.<\/p>\n
“It is so important. Unity is everything, especially in our community, especially in the climate that we’re in and society right now,” said Pastor Patrick.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Michael Singer said seeing this brings him great joy.<\/p>\n
“Seeing the next generation owning history and recognizing their place in it in not only the past, but what we have to do now and in the future,” said Rabbi Singer.<\/p>\n
The event featured singing and different speakers too, including Central Moravian Church Senior Pastor Janel Rice.<\/p>\n
“We recognize that he touched not only the Christian Church and the Civil Rights Movement, but also interfaith movements around the country and certainly around the world,” said Pastor Rice.<\/p>\n
There is one thing in particular Pastor Patrick said he hopes people take away from this Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping they take away, my biggest thing is unity. For us to come together in unity,” said Pastor Patrick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Buttons were scattered across the floor inside Moravian University’s Foy Hall in Bethlehem on Sunday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":{"0":"post-90486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}