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Memory Sunday (and Memory Sabbath)6/8/20246/9/2024
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Memory Sunday is an annual event typically scheduled on the second Sunday in June (in 2024, on June 9). Memory Sabbath occurs one day earlier.
On Memory Sabbath and Memory Sunday, faith communities serving people of African descent provide education on Alzheimer’s: prevention, treatment, research studies, and caregiving. Read about Memory Sunday in “Raising Alzheimer’s Awareness in African American Faith Communities” (AgeWise King County, June 2023).
Participating faith communities in 2024 include:
- The Carrie House Church of God in Christ
- The Christ Spirit Church
- Damascus International Fellowship Baptist Church
- Emerald City Community SDA
- First AME Church
- Grace United Methodist Church
- Madrona Grace Presbyterian Church
- Maranatha Adventist Church
- Mount Calvary Christian Center
- Mount Zion Baptist Church
- New Beginnings Christian Fellowship
- New Hope Baptist Church
- People’s Institutional Baptist Church
- Primm Tabernacle AME Church
- Renton SDA Church
- Restoration Bible Church
- Seattle Ghanaian Fellowship SDA
- St. Therese Catholic Church
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
- Walker Chapel AME Church
For a list of participating communities in 2023, click here.
Memory Sunday is an initiative of the National Brain Health Center for African Americans, founded by The Balm In Gilead, which provides support to faith communities and other institutions that work to eliminate health disparities.
For more information about Memory Sunday in Seattle-King County and for handouts and other resources, e-mail Angeilea Yancey-Watson, African American Reach and Teach Health, at AngeileaY@aarth.org.