Reverend Denise Dunbar-Perkins Will Lead Carleton College’s Black History Month Chapel Service

Carleton College will commemorate Black History Month with a special chapel service led by Reverend Denise Dunbar-Perkins on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in the College’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. Dunbar-Perkins’ sermon, entitled “Right Here, Right Now,” will be followed by a performance by the Jubilee Singers. After the service, participants are invited to attend a soup supper. This event is free and open to the public.

2010 marks Dunbar-Perkins’ fourth annual sermon at Carleton College in honor of Black History Month. As in previous years, Carleton students will help lead many parts of the service with prayers, scripture readings, and litanies. The Jubilee Singers, directed by Lawrence Burnett, is a choir of thirty talented Carleton vocalists.

The Reverend Denise Dunbar-Perkins is a ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  She is currently working at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis as Staff Chaplain in Oncology and works as part of the hospital-wide Crisis Intervention Team. She is one of the original founding members of Kwanzaa Community Church in North Minneapolis, the only African American Presbyterian Church in Minnesota.  In the last fifteen years, she has served locally, nationally and internationally as a speaker, teacher, preacher, workshop leader, curriculum writer and worship leader. She often speaks on the healthcare concerns of the communities of color and the church’s response to them. In addition, Dunbar-Perkins is an adjunct professor at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, teaching classes on Black church culture and Womanist theology.

The Skinner Memorial Chapel is located on First Street between College and Winona Streets in Northfield. For more information about this event, call (507) 222-7179.