(Updated 4 p.m.

, Friday, January 8, 2016)

SCHEDULE FOR SPENCER TURNIPSEED*

Sioux Falls, S.D., Jan. 15-18, 2016

Sunday, Jan. 17
8:30 a.m. "What Does the Lord Require?" Sermon based on Micah 6:8, at traditional service,
Sioux Falls First United Methodist Church.
9:45 a.m. "What Does the Lord Require?" Sermon based on Micah 6:8, at unity service, Sioux
Falls First United Methodist Church.
11:15 a.m. "What Does the Lord Require?" Sermon based on Micah 6:8, at modern service,
Sioux Falls First United Methodist Church.
4 p.m. Race and Reconciliation Forum. Spencer Turnipseed leads a public conversation about
diversity, inclusion and current issues related to civil rights, equality, compassion and peace.
Sioux Falls First United Methodist Church. Open to all.

Monday, Jan. 18
8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Spencer Turnipseed addresses special eighth-grade assembly of 300
students at Sioux Falls Whittier Middle School. Will be scheduled for a 50-minute class period
beginning about 9:15. Hosted by Principal Twaine Fink in the school auditorium. American
history is part of the eighth grade curriculum and Martin Luther King Day is an appropriate time
to explore the Civil Rights Movement and address issues related to diversity and inclusion.
2 p.m. Coffee and conversation with Spencer Turnipseed, hosted by Sioux Falls Human
Relations Office and Commission, at Josiah's Coffeehouse & Caf. The open forum is tied to
the citys new initiative, Compassionate Sioux Falls. Arrangements with Tina Lemieux and
Julie Briggs.
6-6:30 p.m. Arrive at Augustana University and check in with Mark Blackburn, director of
diversity and inclusion.
7 p.m. Keynote speaker at Augustana Universitys Martin Luther King Week commemorative
program and closing ceremony. Edith Mortenson Center Theatre on the Augustana campus.
http://www.augie.edu/events/campus-celebrates-martin-luther-king-jr-january

*Spencer Turnipseed, a native of Montgomery, Ala., is a third-generation clergyman and comes

from a line of prominent social justice advocates in the South. Members of the Turnipseed
family were bold, courageous champions for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. They were
allied with Martin Luther King Jr. beginning in 1954, when Spencers father, Rev. Dr. Andrew
Turnipseed, was pastor of a Methodist Church located just two blocks from Dr. Kings Dexter

Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery. Spencer Turnipseed is a 1971 graduate of Duke

University with a BA in history. He earned a master of divinity degree from Wesley Seminary,
Washington, D.C., in 1975. Rev. Turnipseed, current pastor at Point Washington United
Methodist Church, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., previously served other United Methodist churches
in Virginia, Alabama and Florida. He was the assistant to three United Methodist bishops, 19941999 and 2004-2009. Rev. Turnipseed is married to the former Sally Akers. The Turnipseeds
have two adult sons.