Please join us on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM for a Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture at Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church, 2025 West 11th St. (in the Activities Building next to the Sanctuary). Kwanzaa is a unique African-American celebration, observed from December 26 through January 1, with a focus on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. Kwanzaa was created to introduce and reinforce seven basic principles of African culture that contribute to the building and reinforcing of family, community and culture:
UMOJA (Unity): To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race
KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
UJIMA (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together
UJAMAA (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together
NIA (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness
KUUMBA (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it
IMANI (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to Kwanzaa@ResurrectionMCC.org by Friday, December 24, 2010. Friends and family (including children) are welcome! Feel free to forward this e-mail.
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