Fellowship.
There's something we certainly could use more of these days.
In Media, they've been doing it for 75 years.
The Media Fellowship House recently celebrated three-quarters of a century of living up to their mission - fostering fellowship and understanding between diverse cultures, promoting social justice, and handing these crucial lessons down from one generation to the next.
It's often said that people are not born with hate.
It's a learned trait that starts in the home.
The same can be said for fellowship.
Media Fellowship House could not possibly have picked a more apt speaker for their 75th anniversary gala. Journalist Bill Whitaker, of '60 Minutes' fame, knows a little something about fellowship. And the way it's practiced in Media.
He should know. His mother, Marie, was one of the founder's of the organization. Marie, along with her baby daughter, were refused service at a Media restaurant in 1944.
The reason? They were African American.
Two white women who were in the eatery at the time witnessed the event, and accompanied Whitaker to a restaurant that would serve them all.
Seventy-five years later, amid some of the same racially charged headlines, you can wonder just how far we have come in the hunt for racial and social justice.
I tend to look at it another way.
I wonder where we would be without groups like Media Fellowship House.
Happy 75th! And many more
You, and the mission you so gloriously carry out, have never been more important.
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