The MainStreet DeLand Association is inviting the community to gather to celebrate the life of longtime MainStreet Director Wayne Carter. Carter died Nov. 14 at the age of 68.

The celebration will take place at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at First Church DeLand, 113 E. Howry Ave. All are welcome.

Interim MainStreet Director Stephanie Garcia Mullins said the celebration service was organized to give the DeLand community an opportunity to remember Carter.

“This was the community that he loved so much,” Garcia Mullins said.

Carter headed the MainStreet organization for 11 years, making him the nonprofit agency’s longest-serving director.

She said Carter’s widow, Beth Carter, is expected to attend the DeLand service, along with other members of his family.

Carter’s funeral was Dec. 3 in Eustis, where he and Beth lived, with the Harden/Pauli Funeral Home in charge.