DelawareScene: World AIDS Day 2025 @ CAMP Rehoboth

World AIDS Day 2025

Plan to attend the annual World AIDS Day service, which will take place on Sunday, November 30. This year’s theme, “Living in a World with HIV,” invites us to honor those we have lost while recognizing the strength, challenges, and ongoing support of those caring for, and living with, HIV today.

This event will begin at CAMP Rehoboth at 5:30 p.m., where attendees will gather and proceed to walk over to All Saints’ Church on Olive Avenue in a Candlelight Procession in memory of all who have died of AIDS. The service will begin at 6:00 p.m. and showcase readings and shared words by members of the community and performances by the ALLIANCE singers of the CAMP Rehoboth Chorus. The service will be multi-faith and secular, and a reception will be held immediately following in the parish hall. Folks with limited mobility and anyone else who can’t join us at 5:30 are welcome to meet us at All Saints’. This is an inclusive, all-ages event – a time for reflection, remembrance and community solidarity.

Once again CAMP Rehoboth will host a portion of the AIDS Quilt for viewing at All Saints’ Church, where it will serve as a powerful visual backdrop for the service as we remember the many lives lost to AIDS and reflect on its continued impact today.

Viewing opportunities of the AIDS Quilt not only include the service on Sunday November 30th, but also:

→ Tuesday (11/24) from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

→ Wednesday (11/25) from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

→ Saturday (11/29) from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. for private meditation and a service at 5:00 p.m.

→ Sunday (11/30) between 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. with services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m and the World AIDS Day service with special music and readings at 6:00 p.m.

→ Monday (12/1) and Tuesday (12/2) between 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for private meditation

The Sunday evening service will feature names of those lost to the AIDS epidemic. These names are submitted by community members; submit names to remember below no later than 5 p.m. ET, Friday, November 21st.

This event is sponsored by CAMP Rehoboth, Sussex Pride, All Saints’ & St. George’s Episcopal Parish, Community Lutheran Church, Seaside Jewish Community Center, Epworth United Methodist Church, Metropolitan Community Church of Rehoboth Beach, and Westminster Presbyterian Church.