Spurgeon Chapel AME Zion Church Archives

Judy Gooch

The Atomic City Sportsmen Club is having itsÂ 31st annual Martin Luther King Fellowship Breakfast on Monday morning. The community is invited, a press release said.

The Breakfast will be held on Monday, January 21, at Spurgeon Chapel AME Zion Church at 100 South Benedict Avenue in Oak Ridge. The program begins at 8 a.m., and this yearâ€™s keynote speaker will be Judy Gooch, owner of Judy Gooch Interiors of Oak Ridge.

Gooch has been active in community affairs for the past 25 years.

In 2005, she was appointed to serve on the Tennessee Board of Regents by Governor Phil Bredesen. In 2008, Tennessee State University, formerly known as Tennessee A & I, requested that honorary degrees be awarded to the universityâ€™s fourteen Freedom Riders from the early 1960s. [Read more…]

TheÂ Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church will host an annualÂ Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service on Sunday.

“Clergy and congregations from four area churches will participate in the service to share the simple, yet universal message of ‘giving thanks’ and to lift up the call anew to care for each other and our neighbors,” a press release said.

It said each church has prepared a special musical offering for the service.Â Participating churches include Spurgeon Chapel AME Zion Church, Grace Covenant Church, Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, and First United Methodist Church.

Everyone who can should bring a non-perishable food item to give to area food banks.

A dessert social will be held after the service in the church Social Hall. The church isÂ at 1500 Oak Ridge Turnpike, and the serviceÂ starts at 6 p.m.

For more information, call the ORUUC office at (865) 483-6761.

Martin Luther King Fellowship Breakfast is Monday in Oak Ridge

Annual Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service at UU Church on Sunday