Mobilizing Hope:
Adam Russel Taylor on Continuing the Work of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today

Friday, Sept. 20th
4:00pm
Union Theological Seminary
3041 Broadway @ 121st St.
NY, NY 10027

Martin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome–”Be transformed by the renewing of your mind”–as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King’s day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws insights from that movement to the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same. See what today’s transformed nonconformists are doing at home and abroad to keep in step with the God of justice and love, and find ways you can join the new nonconformists in an activism of hope.

Adam Taylor is currently serving as a White House Fellow in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs and Public Engagement. He was formerly the Senior Political Director at Sojourners where he was responsible for leading the organization’s advocacy, coalition building, and constituency outreach. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice. Before co-founding Global Justice, he worked as an Associate at the Harvard University Carr Center for Human Rights and as an Urban Fellow in the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in New York City. Taylor is an ordained Associate Minister at the First Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. and is married to Sharee Mckenzie Taylor.

Trinity Grace Church Teaching

29 August 2010

Recorded at TGC Westside

Friday, September 24 at 7pm. Location TBD.

Join people from Trinity Grace communities across the city as we lift up our voices and praise our great God, asking him to renew his great deeds in our day.

Jon Tyson is leading a men’s morning Bible study about leadership, every Wednesday morning during the Fall, 7am-8am. All men are welcome.

The study will be based on 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy.

Wednesdays 7am-8am, starting Sept 8 at the TGC offices

330 5th Ave, Fl 8 – corner of 33rd

Habitat-NYC’s School for Faith, Action & Impact will explore how our faiths call us towards justice and how we can put our faith into further action by raising our voices for our communities and neighbors in need.

Session 1 – Breaking Down the Walls:
Saturday, October 2nd
10am – 4pm
Central Manhattan Location TBA
Lunch is provided!

This exciting first session explores the reality of poverty and the lack of affordable housing in our city and how our faiths call us to respond. The day will include interactive activities and exercises, special guest presenters, and much more! If you’re excited about Habitat and our mission, you’ll love this special opportunity to get more involved in serving families in need.

$10 requested registration donation per session or $20 for all three sessions. Scholarships available and congregational sponsorship of participation is encouraged. Lunch included.

Attend all three sessions to receive:
·         Free transportation to Habitat for Humanity – NYS’s March 2011 Albany lobby day
·         A certificate of training

To Register or for more information contact Matt Dunbar at: (212) 991-4000 x320 or mdunbar@habitatnyc.org

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Session 2 – Faith in Action:
Saturday, November 6th

Takes an in-depth look at housing issues in New York City and State and equips faith partners with the tools needed to construct change

Session 3 – Building Impact:
Saturday, December 4th

Examines the importance of classic organizing models and coalitions and focuses on how faith-rooted advocacy can have a major impact by utilizing the unique and exciting opportunities individuals and communities of faith have to speak and act out for social change

There is a well-documented human rights crisis in Florida’s fields, and conditions facing farmworkers who harvest the tomatoes we buy at places such as Trader Joe’s are as urgent as they are appalling.  Farmworkers picking tomatoes for Trader Joe’s chain of supermarkets earn 40-50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they harvest–wages hat have not risen since 1978.  A worker must pick nearly 2.5 tons of tomatoes just to earn minimum wage for a typical 10-hour day.  Grinding poverty leaves farmworkers vulnerable to the most exploitative employers, often resulting in egregious labor rights abuses.

We have the opportunity to encourage the supermarkets where we shop to support social responsibility in the Florida tomato industry.

For more information visit workers@ciw-online.org