Poetry Reading Downtown Ontario this weekend

Press release from United Church of Christ

United Church of Christ in Ontario welcomes award winning author and poet Hope Anita Smith to a reading of her work on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.. Ms Smith is known best for The Way the Door Closes, Keeping the Night Watch, and Mother. The reading is open to all. Donations will be collected for Bethel UCC's "Relay for Life" team.

"I'd say about 1/3 of our regular Sunday worship attendees are either cancer survivors themselves or have been caregivers to those with cancer in the past," said Rev. Jonathon Edwards as he explains why Bethel United Church of Christ is participating in this year's American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" fundraiser. "Cancer isn't a far off, abstract illness to us. It has impacted our congregation directly."

On her journey to becoming an award-winning author, Hope Anita Smith has been a storyteller, teacher, photographer, artist and a singer.

She has won numerous prestigious literary awards and, through her company Inked Well Words, currently teaches writing and bookmaking workshops. She lives in Beverly Hills, California.

The reading will take place in the sanctuary at Bethel UCC at 536 N. Euclid Ave. (at F Street). For more information about the event, please call Bethel UCC at 909-984-9111 or email them at info@bethelucc-ontario.com.

Bethel United Church of Christ gathers for worship on Sunday mornings at 10:10am. No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey, you are welcome here.