Nonn will deliver a sermon called "We Are All Concected" at both the 8:45 and 11 a.m. services. United Church of Chapel Hill is at 1321 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Chapel Hill.

Nonn will also speak at a forum between the two worship services about the crisis in Darfur and the movement to stir the world to action.

Tents of Hope is a movement that seeks to create awareness and support for the people of Darfur, Sudan.

Congregations and communities across the country have been creating tents that are both unique works of art and focal points within communities for learning about, assisting and establishing relationships with the people of Sudan.

The tents are not answers in themselves. Rather, they are points of entry for more concrete forms of Darfur advocacy.

There is a Tent of Hope on the front lawn of United Church of Chapel Hill which has been designed and painted by parishioners of the congregation.

The Tents of Hope project emerged in June 2007 through a partnership between the United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and Dear Sudan.

With the support of those two denominations, Petaluma, Calif.-based Dear Sudan has engaged in national organizing efforts since May 2004 to build a community-based response to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

The structure of the Tents of Hope project is decentralized and temporary.

It is a one-year project in which local communities are responsible for taking the initiative to shape the project both through the creation of the tents as works of art and the use of the tents as focal points for education, advocacy and fundraising for humanitarian assistance.

National coordination is focused on giving support to these local efforts in such areas as the project Web site and a national event in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 6-9.

For more information about Tents of Hope, see www.tentsofhope.org.