I read the words below at www.Amazinggracesunday.com. I recommended the movie "Amazing Grace" a couple weeks ago, in partnership with the movement to abolish slavery around the world we'll be singing this Hymn on Sunday at SRC. I invite you to look into the organization and see if there is a part that you should play.

"Two hundred years ago, British politician William Wilberforce and his band of loyal friends took on the most powerful forces of their day to end the slave trade. His mentor was John Newton, the slave-trader-turned-song-writer, who wrote the world’s most popular hymn, Amazing Grace.

This year is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. But the work of justice and mercy continues. 27 million men, women, and children are still enslaved around the globe.

How sweet the sound of freedom."

--Ben