MLK Jr Sunday - "Updating the Dream"

The annual service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held at during the 9:15 and 11:15 services. Special guests will be speaker, Pam Rumancik and singer, Calesta Day.
The service will feature an abundance of music from the African-American tradition including spirituals and gospel songs performed by the NSUC Choir, directed by Wayland Rogers and the guest singer, Calesta Day. 

Calesta A. Day, from Atlanta, Georgia, made her University of Kentucky Opera Theatre debut in February 2011 as Lily Holmes in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. She has also appeared as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte with Miami University Opera. In Cincinnati Opera’s premier performance of Margaret Garner, she was seen as a Slave Chorister. Her operatic roles also include Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro with Miami University and Bowling Green State University Opera, Third Spirit in Cendrillon with Bowling Green State University Opera and she premiered the role of Alice in The Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Sinclair Community College Theatre.

Ms. Day currently serves as Music director and church pianist at East Maple Street Christian Church in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Ms. Day holds an Associate of Arts in Voice Performance from Sinclair Community College, Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Bowling Green State University, Master of Arts degree in Education with a Music Concentration from the University of Dayton, and the Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from Miami University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Voice Performance at the University of Kentucky under the supervision of Dr. Everett McCorvey. Calesta's doctoral project is "Exploring The Role Of African American Opera Singers In The Establishment Of The Spiritual As A Musicial Art Form From 1900 To 1960".

Pam Rumancik is a recent graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School and has received prelimary fellowship from the MFC in December. She is working this year at Elmhurst Memorial HealthCare serving a chaplain residency.