Labor Day Faith Program Kicks Off

Each year more then 50 congregations from a variety of faiths honor workers with special services and programs over Labor Day weekend and throughout September. Nationally, hundreds of congregations in dozens of cities participate in similar programs. Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington, Jews United for Justice, the Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO and the Northern Virginia AFL-CIO are preparing to kick off the annual Labor in the Pulpits, Labor on the Bimah, and Labor on the Minbar program. This year, two new interns will bring fresh energy to the Labor Day programs. Slgi Choi, a participant in the UMC General Board of Church and Society's Ethnic Young Adult internship program, will be working with DC Jobs with Justice. Slgi, a rising junior at Agnes Scott College, a women's college located in Georgia, comes to DC "excited to work on social justice and to relate faith to justice." Sarah Epstein, a native of Northern Virginia and student at Oberlin College, is interning at the Virginia Organizing Project and the Service Employees International Union. She will be working to expand participation from Northern Virginia congregations. Stay tuned for this year's invitation letter and sign-up form. To make sure you get a packet, e-mail your contact information to mbaris@dclaborarchives.org. Foundry Methodist Church 2005 Labor in the Pulpit service, photo by Chris Garlock