For the original PDF formatted ANTI-POVERTY brochure and letter - click here.
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PA United Methodists Uniting to Tackle Poverty
Anti-Poverty Summit Oct. 10-11, 2010, Camp Hill, PA
At least 1.6 million Pennsylvanians live in poverty. They are our neighbors, our friends, and our families.
What can you do?
What can your congregation do?
What can The United Methodist Church across Pennsylvania do?
Be part of the solution. Be part of United Methodists Uniting: Pennsylvania Anti-Poverty Summit.
United Methodist Advocacy in Pennsylvania, joined by our bishops, Peggy Johnson of Eastern PA Conference, Jane Allen Middleton of the Susquehanna Conference, and Thomas Bickerton of the Western PA Conference, is sponsoring this important, actionfocused summit.
You will:
Learn about effective local anti- poverty ministries.
See what your church can do, not only tohelp those in poverty, but also to attack poverty's root causes.
Help develop a statewide United Methodist anti-poverty strategy. Churches are encouraged to send a lay-clergy ministry team to the summit. Cost of the summit is $50 per person.
Keynote speaker will be Bishop Felton Edwin May, the "father" of the United Methodist Shalom Zone movement, and former bishop of the Harrisburg and Washington Areas of The United Methodist Church.
Bishop May tells it as he sees it. Expect to be prodded, encouraged, and led by the HolySpirit as Bishop May leads us in creating a vision for action in Pennsylvania. He is appearing courtesy of the Northeast Jurisdiction's Multi-Ethnic Center, where he serves as executive director.
Tuesday, Oct. 12, is an optional lobbying day for participants who want to meet with legislators and/or legislative staff in the nearby state Capitol. We'll meet at historic Grace UMC, just down the street from the Capitol, and then go to offices in the Capitol Complex.Our experience begins at 9 a.m. and will finish after lunch.
Summit Focus
Faces of Poverty - People, Not Stereotypes
Our Poverty Response: Justice or Charity?
Grassroots Lobbying: A Tool Kit
Poverty Simulation: Learning Through Experience
Crafting a Vision for PA
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Jesus tells us in Luke 3:11, that "whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise." In writing to Timothy, the apostle Paul tells him "God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love."(2 Timothy 1:7)
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The cost of participating in the summit is$50 per person. That includes dinner Sunday, continental breakfast and lunch on Monday, and a conference workbook.
Lodging is available at numerous hotels close to Camp Hill United Methodist Church, 417 South 22nd Street, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17011.
To control our expenses, we encourage everyone to register at http://www.umadvocacypa.org/. If not, use the accompanying form. Please make your checks payable to: Susquehanna Conference UMC, and make a notation, "Poverty Summit" on the memo line.
Forms and Checks should be sent to United Methodist Advocacy in Pennsylvania, 216 State St., Harrisburg, PA 17101.
For additional information, contact: Stephen Drachler, Executive Director, United Methodist Advocacy in Pennsylvania. Email: sdrachler@umadvocacypa.org. Or Phone: 717.236.6363.
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Preliminary Agenda for Anti-Poverty Summit
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010
4 p.m. Opening Session
Worship
Introduction to objectives of summit
5:30 p.m. Dinner
6:15 p.m. Keynote Address - Bishop Felton E. May
7:15 p.m. Panel - Faces of Poverty - People, Not Stereotypes
8:30 p.m. Small Groups Meet/Begin Dialogue/focus on developing vision
9 p.m. Close for evening (Groups may continue until 10 p.m.]
Monday Oct. 11, 2010
7:30-8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. Morning Devotions
8:30 a.m. Panel Discussion: Our Poverty Response: Justice or Charity?
9:30 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. Grass Roots Advocacy - A Lobbying Tool Kit
10:45 a.m. Poverty Simulation - Community Action Association of PA
11:30 a.m. Lunch
12:30 p.m. Return to Small Groups
2 p.m. Reconvene Plenary - Shape Final Vision/Response
3 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Closing Worship - Holy Communion
4 p.m. Adjourn
Optional Advocacy Opportunity Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010
9 a.m. Gather at Grace UMC, 216 State Street, Harrisburg
9:15 a.m. Devotions
9:30 a.m. Review Assignments
9:45 a.m. Leave for Capitol
10 a.m. Begin meetings with legislators, staff
12 p.m. Re-gather at Grace UMC
12:15 p.m. Lunch/adjournment
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United Methodists Uniting: Pennsylvania Anti-Poverty Summit Oct. 10-11, 2010 Camp Hill UMC, Camp Hill, PA
Registration Form
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Continuing Education Credits will be offered. Click here if interested. <>
Registration is $50 per participant. Please make your checks payable to: Susquehanna Conference UMC, and make a notation, "Poverty Summit" on the memo line. Forms and Checks should be sent to United Methodist Advocacy in Pennsylvania, 216 State St., Harrisburg, PA 17101.
For the original PDF formatted ANTI-POVERTY brochure and letter - click here.
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