Inaugural Theme: ‘Renewing America’s Promise’

The theme of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will be “Renewing America’s Promise,” the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Wednesday, revealing more about the president-elect’s schedule surrounding inauguration.

“At this moment of great challenge and great change, renewing the promise of America begins with renewing the idea that in America, we rise or fall as one nation and one people,” Obama said in a statement. “That sense of unity and shared purpose is what this Inauguration will reflect.”

Obama will also participate in service activities across Washington, D.C. on the Monday preceding his inauguration. That Monday, the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, comes the day before Obama is sworn in as the United States’ first African-American president.

Obama and the to-be-inaugurated Vice President Joe Biden will participate in a prayer service on Wednesday.