The First Thursdays luncheon and lecture series at Monroe Street United Methodist Church, 3613 Monroe Street, Toledo, will resume Thursday, October 1, at noon.

The program will feature Compassion, a ministry based at St. Rose Church in Perrysburg, that reaches out to people on Death Row throughout the United States.

Compassion sends a bimonthly newsletter to every prisoner on Death Row in the U.S. T…