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Online donations: fundraiser for L’arche Atlanta. 2-4 p.m. today. View on Facebook Live at bit.ly/3vvb85x to cheer Team Captains and Core Members as they shoot baskets. Each Team Captain will have three minutes to score as many baskets as they can, earning points and money for L’arche. Based locally in Decatur, this global organization helps people with and without developmental disabilities. Larcheatlanta. org/larchemadness.html Donate: anython.com/larchemadness21
In person and online: Good Friday and Easter worship services. First Baptist Church of Atlanta, 4400 N. Peachtree Road, Dunwoody/atlanta. fba.org
Online: Spring classes by PALS (Perimeter Adult Learning Services). Mondays and Wednesdays from April 5 through May 26. $55 for all classes for the eight weeks. Registration and payment must be made on the PALS web page (Palsonline.info). PALS Administrator Iris Katz at 770-698-0801 or dunwoodypals@gmail.com
Mondays from April 5 to May 24 at 10-11 a.m. “Inside the GBI.” Agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will discuss the agency’s various operations, including how they investigate major thefts, police-involved shootings, child trafficking and elder abuse, and the use of the crime lab.
Mondays from April 5 to May 24 at 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. “Stories from the Bible, New Testament and Quran.” Kemal Budak will present how the stories of Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Job and Mary, among others, are portrayed similarly and differently in the Holy Scriptures of the three Abrahamic faiths.
Wednesdays from April 7 to May 26 at 10-11 a.m. “Georgians in Entertainment.” Tom Dell will highlight numerous entertainers who either were born in Georgia or spent significant time here, including Oliver Hardy, Ray Charles, Joe South, Billy Joe Royal and Fiddlin’ John Carson.
Wednesdays from April 7 to May 26 at 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. “Winston Churchill — From Birth to Death and Beyond.” Bill Fisher, a founding member of the Winston Churchill Society of Georgia, will discuss the life of legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from his birth in 1874 to his death in 1965 and his legacy, especially as political leader of the United Kingdom during World War II.