Bulletin Board
Heaven on Earth
An Agrarian Road Trip to the U.S. Social Forum
June 13-26, 2010
You’re invited to the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s Heaven on Earth Agrarian Road Trip to the US Social Forum from June 13-26. Join this delegation of college students, farmers, musicians, bloggers and other adventurous souls. Starting in Louisville, Kentucky, we will make stops in six other states along the way to Detroit, Michigan to visit with congregations and community groups who are participating in the grassroots sustainable and just food revolution that is sprouting up everywhere.
Ellen Davis, professor at Duke Divinity, and author of Scripture, Culture and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, will ground the trip in the Bible.
Jud Hendrix - a young pastor at PC(USA)’s Covenant Community Church - will help the journeyers process the experience and facilitate conversation cafes with congregations and folks along the way. We will attempt to develop a living theology as we experience the growing local agrarian renaissance.
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Peace,
Kelly Wilkinson
Program Assistant, Presbyterian Hunger Program
office: 502.569.5819 -- fax: 502.569.8963 -- kelly.wilkinson@pcusa.org
toll free: 888.728.7228 ext.5819
100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, KY 40202
July 9-18 of 2010, Presbytery-wide youth mission trip.
This will be for those who will be entering 9th grade in the Fall of 2010 through this year’s Seniors. We will also need chaperones (1 for every 7 youth), so even you "bigger kids" could come if you wanted to!!
The trip is through YouthWorks, an established and reputable youth missions organization. This trip (July 9-18, 2010) will be to Vancouver, British Columbia. We will be working with the homeless and disadvantaged, with special emphasis on the children and families that are struggling to break the cycle of addiction and poverty. This ministry will be carefully supervised by not only the YouthWorks staff and our able and talented chaperones, but also the staff of the Vancouver Rescue Mission.
Those youth and adult chaperones interested in attending the trip must send me $60. (checks payable to "FPC-Helena") and a completed registration form NO LATER THAN January 10th. A limited number of places are available on this trip, so you do not want to delay. Lots of kids are being informed about this trip... Spots will go at a first come-first served basis.
I am a Presbyterian, and a minister, due in no small part to a mission experience I had as a young person through the ministry of First Presbyterian Church of Puyallup, WA. If you are serious about wanting to hear God’s call on your life, do not wait to get the registration form from me!! (and, turn in your $60.)
I am personally committed to helping every youth that registers for the trip fundraise the rest of the needed money so they can go. So, don’t let the overall price tag ($400-500/person) scare you off.
Blessings,
Rev. Chris Haughee (cell: 406-465-9693)
General Mission & Ministry Team Chairman, Glacier Presbytery
First Presbyterian Church
535 North Ewing Street
Helena, Montana 59601
Stewardship of Creation Enablers Program
(the following is an excerpt from the SCE document)
The 1990 General Assembly adopted an ambitious and comprehensive social policy statement entitled "Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice." It contained recommendations for all levels of the church to increase efforts to help heal and defend God’s Creation.
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