Vesper Service

You are invited to join President Robert Fisher of Belmont University for our Debate ’08 Vesper Service. Our homilist is Rev. David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World, a citizens' anti-hunger movement which focuses on education about hunger and on influencing public policies on hunger and poverty.

Rev. Beckmann was educated at the London School of Economics and Yale University and ordained as a “missionary economist” by the Lutheran Church. He worked in rural development in Bangladesh and for 15 years with the World Bank. Also officiating at the service are Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie, the first female bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Very Rev. David Perkin, Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese of Nashville; and Rev. Dr. Todd Lake, Vice President for Spiritual Development at Belmont University. The Rev. Anne Stevenson of Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral is our host. Music will be provided by Belmont’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Please join us for refreshments following the service. Complementary parking is available in several lots surrounding the church.