The service is open to the public. Faith United Presbyterian Church is located at 200 South Eighth Street, just two blocks south of the MC campus.

A free-will offering will be held to help support the continued congregational work through the Village Transformation Project in Kandithankulam, India, a Faith Church project in Southern India started 20 years ago by MC faculty members Raj and Saro Ambrose. The Ambroses have used donations collected through the church to change living conditions for many of the oppressed, including the building and staffing of a health clinic in Kandithankulam and the boring of a number of fresh water wells.

Music will include a live band, featuring MC music students Brad Larson, vocals; Kelsie Huber, keyboards; Kevin Douglas, guitar; Larry Gilbert, bass, and Paul Anderson on drums. Monmouth musician Barbara Gossett will accompany on the organ during the singing of hymns.

Liturgists will be the Rev. William C. Myers of Faith Church; the Rev. Dr. B. Kathleen Fannin, Monmouth College chaplain; and some of Fannin’s student chaplains, including Paige Halpin, Noelle Templeton, Melissa Lindsay, Matt Travnik and Ben Morrow.

U2Charist is a liturgical service that features U2’s music and a message about God’s call to rally around the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), several of which are being met by the Kandithankulam project. A series of eight international development goals adopted by 189 U.N. member states, MDGs include reducing poverty and child mortality, fighting epidemics and developing a global partnership for development, all by the year 2015.

U2’s lead singer, Bono, has been a leading proponent of the movement and has been proclaimed as a global MDG ambassador.