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Celebrating the diversity of cultures and the unity within our community is the focus of this weekend's "Cultures, Community & Christ Celebration 2000."
Today at 8 a.m. a community-wide prayer breakfast will be held at Warsaw Community High School. Tickets are $6 at the door. Featured will be renowned Promise Keepers speaker, Raleigh Washington.
"Operation Blessing" will be at Center Lake Park at 11 a.m. today. Food will be distributed to area residents in need. Families who need food should contact Our Father's House at 268-1800. Volunteers are needed to help distribute food.
Beginning at 3 p.m. today at Central Park, there will be clowns, face painting, puppets, balloons and family entertainment. There also will be free food, including hot dogs, popcorn, pop and snow cones.
Sue Roeder, vocalist, will perform in Spanish at 5 p.m.
Grace College band, Sound Investment, also will perform, followed by Khanyisa.
Khanyisa is a young musical group from South Africa. Khanyisa performed at Warsaw Community and Wawasee high schools Friday.
Washington will speak again at 6:45 p.m. with a Spanish interpreter.
The public is invited and the afternoon events are free to the public.
Attendees should bring their own lawn chairs.
Sponsors include the Committee to Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., New Life Christian Church, Grace College and Seminary, Our Father's House, Burkhart Advertising, the Alliance for Cultural Unity and the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association.
