# Event Details

- **Event Name**: REV. MEGAN LLOYD JOINER "King's Call: We Are All Drum Majors" +POTLUCK!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Event Description**: We revisit Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s February 1968 sermon, “The Drum Major” instinct as we lift up his legacy. 

How will we answer his call to be “drum majors for justice” in our time?

 How will we relinquish what King called “shallow things” and devote our energy to what has lasting significance? 

A lifelong student of the Civil Rights Movement, Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner joins us to reflect on Dr. King’s life and work and its meaning for us today.

Stacey Day is the service leader. 

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9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Weekly meditation group gathers upstairs. All are welcome. 
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Coffee and fellowship in person.
10:30 AM - Service begins in person and on Zoom.
After service: Healing circle (outside)
After healing circle: Potluck. All are welcome even if you didn't bring a dish to share. Homemade not required.

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Zoom link:
 https://zoom.us/j/3169373340?pwd=eU5jWStsTnFjVkxQSURsTmRqMC9UQT09
Meeting ID: 316 937 3340 | Password: 2012
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REV. MEGAN LLOYD JOINER is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and a board-certified chaplain. A life-long Unitarian Universalist, she is a member of the Unity Chapel, Inc. Board of Trustees in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Megan served as the Chaplain and Chair of Religious Studies at Woodward Academy in Atlanta, GA from 2022-2025.

Megan is a certified Cognitively-Based Compassion Training instructor with Emory University. She holds a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, with additional training at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Emory University Spiritual Health, and the Emory Compassion Center.

Megan served congregations in Connecticut for nearly a decade before moving in 2019 to Atlanta where she now lives with her husband and their two daughters, ages 11 and 5.
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- **Event Categories**: food-drinks, potluck, health-wellness, workshops, meetups, nonprofit, meditation, martin-luther-king-day, spiritual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Ellijay
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 2502 Tails Creek Rd, Ellijay, GA 30540-3553, United States
- **lat**: 34.70352935791
- **long**: -84.521011352539
- **full address**: 2502 Tails Creek Rd, Ellijay, GA 30540-3553, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Mountain Light Unitarian Universalist Church (https://allevents.in/org/mountain-light-unitarian-universalist-church/23286732)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 2502 Tails Creek Rd, Ellijay, GA 30540-3553, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Mountain Light Unitarian Universalist Church
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** food-drinks, potluck, health-wellness, workshops, meetups, nonprofit, meditation, martin-luther-king-day, spiritual
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