WHO: Reverend Cecil Williams, Glide’s Founder and Minister of Liberation, YouthSpeaks Poets, Members of Glide’s Ministry Team including, Janice Mirikitani, Founding President of the Glide Foundation, Pastor Donald Guest and Pastor Karen Oliveto

WHERE: Glide Memorial United Methodist Church’s Sanctuary, 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco (enter on Taylor Street)

TICKETS: Glide’s Sunday Celebrations are free and open to the public.

FOR MORE INFO: Call (415) 674-6000 or visit www.Glide.org

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Appointed by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Reverend Cecil Williams has served for over 26 years as the Northern California chairperson of the Martin Luther King Birthday Observance Committee. For over 45 years, Reverend Cecil Williams has expanded the limits of spirituality, compassion and diversity as Founder and Minister of Liberation of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. As minister, author, social activist, lecturer, community leader and spokesperson for the poor and marginalized, Reverend Williams is respected and recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change and in the struggle for civil and human rights.  His ministry underscores his roots in liberation theology.

ABOUT GLIDE: Located at Ellis and Taylor in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco's harshest urban environments, Glide Foundation is an oasis that has served the poor and disenfranchised for over