UPCOMING EVENTS
Special Sunday Service Speaker
Filmmaker Arleigh Prelow
May 31, 2026
11:00 a.m.
Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker Arleigh Prelow will share about her decades-in-the-making documentary on the church
co-founder Howard Thurman
Note: Fellowship Church is located at 2041 Larkin Ave, SF 94019
Please join our Sunday service May 31 at 11:00 to hear from documentarian Arleigh Prelow who will be the featured speaker. The film features the voice of Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown, who brings Thurman’s own words and reflections to life. The film also includes original footage of Barack Obama reflecting on Thurman’s wisdom and legacy.
Woven throughout the film is Prelow’s own voice and decades-long quest to understand what Thurman’s wisdom means for all of us. With original music by Emmy Award-winning composers Joel Goodman and Camara Kambon, and award-winning cellist and composer Kendall Ramseur.
For more information on the film and to make a donation towards the film's last phase of completion, please go to howardthurmanfilm.com.
ABOUT ARLEIGH PRELOW
Arleigh Prelow is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, ordained minister, and graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Divinity School. Her production credits include the Emmy Award-winning documentary Sweet Auburn, Howard Thurman: Spirit of the Movement, In Search of the Sacred, and Ain’t You Gotta Right. She also conducted production research for The Great Debaters and produced segments for the PBS series From Jumpstreet: A Story of Black Music. She serves as an Associate Minister at Bethel AME Church in Boston.
Prelow’s commitment to The Psalm of Howard Thurman began in 1980 when she heard Thurman preach at Fellowship Church. Following a near-fatal accident, she renewed that commitment in 1994, driven by a sense of calling, and has worked for over 30 years to bring this film to completion.
The Howard Thurman Homily
January 18, 2026
11:00 a.m.
The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
2041 Larkin Street
San Francisco
A Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples
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NorCal MLK Foundation Collaboration
The Howard Thurman Homily is a significant annual service held at The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, organized by the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation. This service pays tribute to the influential theologian and civil rights leader, Howard Thurman, known for his impact on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 2026 Howard Thurman Homily speaker is Dr. Sylvester A. Johnson, Ph.D., theologian, technologist, Chair and Professor of Black Studies Northwestern University. He was appointed to hold the 2024 Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress’s Kluge Center. As a scholar of race, religion, and technology, Sylvester works at the intersection of technical and humanistic stakeholders to advance more democratic, inclusive outcomes for an innovation-driven society. (NorCal MLK Foundation)
For more detail information about Dr. Johnson, refer to the NorCalMLK Foundation website. Website
