| The public is invited to attend a service honoring the life
and work of Berea College founder Rev. John G. Fee, in observance
of the 100th anniversary of his death, on Jan. 11, at 8 p.m.
in Union Church.
The event will feature vocal and instrumental presentations
and congregational singing of Christian hymns from the period
of Fee's life, including a new hymn text written by Dr. Edwin
Broadhead, director of campus ministries and assistant professor
of general studies at Berea, which will be premiered at the
service. Performers include students in Dr. Stephen Bolster's
hymnody class, the Berea shape-note singers and other local
groups and others.
Members of the College and Berea community, including Union
Church pastor Rev. Kent Gilbert, who will portray Fee in costume,
will do readings from Fee's writings, speeches and sermons.
Fee, an abolitionist minister from Bracken County, settled
in 1853 on a 10-acre tract of land in Madison County given
to him by Cassius M. Clay, where he founded an anti-slavery
church and, in 1855, the one-room school that became Berea
College. Fee's activities on behalf of freedom and equality
for all people involved him in efforts both in Kentucky and
at the national level. A trustee of Berea from 1858-92, Fee
died in 1901 at the age of 84.
For additional information, contact the Campus Christian Center
at (859) 985-3134.
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