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Awareness prayer breakfast, festival set
NEWS - GAZETTE
Champaign, IL
03.02.01
CHAMPAIGN — Two Champaign churches will be the sites for an
HIV/AIDS awareness prayer breakfast and gospel festival this weekend.
The fifth annual Champaign-Urbana HIV/AIDS Awareness Community
Prayer Breakfast will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at Salem
Baptist Church, 500 E. Park Ave., C.
The gospel music program will start at 3 p.m. Sunday at Alpha &
Omega Church of God in Christ, 400 W. Bradley Ave., C.
There is no charge or reservations required for either event. A
freewill collection will be taken during the music program to help
cover expenses of a speaker.
The programs are part of the 12th annual national observance of
the Black church Week of Prayer for the healing of AIDS.
Information from the Champaign-Urbana African-American HIV/AIDS
Awareness Project states: "The rate of reported AIDS cases
among African-Americans is more than two times greater than the
rate for Hispanics and eight times greater than that for white Americans.
Today 50 percent of all new infections occur within the African-American
community."
The project, a nonprofit organization, has joined with local churches
and with The Balm in Gilead of New York, a national nonprofit group
that helps black churches and community organizations become community
centers for HIV/AIDS education and compassion, plan the local events.
The organizations are asking all churches to say a special prayer
for the healing of HIV/AIDS patients during the national Black Church
Week of Prayer, which starts Sunday and runs through March 10.
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