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03/07/2018 10:57 AMScarlett Lewis, mother of Jesse Lewis—one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting—will speak at Faith United Methodist Church during the morning worship service on Sunday, March 11. The service is at 10 a.m.
After the shooting, Scarlett Lewis founded the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation, a 501c3 IRS-approved non-profit whose mission is “to create a more peaceful world by raising awareness that everyone can choose love in any circumstance; to ensure every child has access to the essential life skills that will empower them to Choose Love, and to help facilitate this by teaching these skills within their families, schools and communities. Choosing Love means having the courage to be grateful when life isn’t easy, to forgive when the person who hurt you is not sorry, and to step outside your own pain to help someone else. That is how to choose love, and the empowering lesson is that it’s a choice.”
Lewis is a highly sought speaker around the United States and world. The curriculum she and the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation have created is being used in all 50 states and 45 nations around the world.
Following the service, Lewis will continue the conversation about her work in the fellowship hall in a less formal setting. All are welcome to attend.
Faith United Methodist Church is at 81 Clintonville Road, North Haven For more information, call 203-239-2469.