Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior!
We are excited to welcome you to the Church of the Incarnation’s Homecoming 2025, as we celebrate our church’s legacy of faith, fellowship, family, and civil rights history.
Join us for this momentous occasion as we honor the rich history of our church and the individuals who have shaped the ongoing fight for civil rights. We look forward to welcoming you to this special event and celebrating the enduring spirit of faith, family, and justice that defines the Church of the Incarnation.
Together, let us continue to stand for faith, fellowship, and freedom.
Many Blessings,
Harriet Batson and Dawne Goldsboro, Homecoming Co-Chairs
Saturday, October 25
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, a true icon of the civil rights movement, will be the featured speaker at this year’s celebration! Joan is a legendary civil rights activist whose fearless dedication to justice helped shape the 1960s movement. As a Freedom Rider, she was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961 and endured two months in the Maximum-Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Continuing to break barriers, Joan became the first white woman to pledge and be initiated into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., while attending Tougaloo College, a historically Black institution. Her remarkable journey is chronicled in her book, “She Stood for Freedom” – The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero.
The Homecoming Celebration will also feature a panel discussion with Andrea Young (Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia and daughter of former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young) and Cheryl Lowery (President of The Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice & Human Rights).
Sunday, October 26
The Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton is Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and Senior Pastor of the Chautauqua Institution. Formerly the Bishop of the Diocese of Maryland and Canon Pastor of Washington National Cathedral, he has also served as a college chaplain, parish priest, and a professor of homiletics and liturgy at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Bishop Sutton is a frequent speaker at conferences focused on spirituality, nonviolence, and racial reconciliation, and he has led numerous missions focused on peace and reconciliation to South Africa, Israel, and the Holy Land. He co-founded Contemplative Outreach of Maryland and Washington (COMW), an ecumenical network of those committed to the daily practice of centering prayer, and is a contributor to the books, The Diversity of Centering Prayer, and Reclaiming the Gospel of Peace: Challenging the Epidemic of Gun Violence.
His board memberships have included the Institute for Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bishops United Against Gun Violence, and the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Bishop Sutton has been named by the Center for American Progress as one of “Fourteen Faith Leaders to Watch” for his faith-led efforts to promote nonviolent solutions to conflicts.