ANTS Student E-news - Monday, March 19, 2007 - Events This Week
EVENTS THIS WEEK
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Art Exhibit: "WomenWatch: A Celebration of Hope."
Community Art Exhibit - Submissions Welcome
Monday:
- Men's Fellowship - Mondays
- SUGAR TALKS: An Interactive Exploration of Sugar's Bitter Aftertaste - Monday, March 19
- Meet the Walkers! And Join Them! - March 19 and March 22
Tuesday:
- Faith, Health, AND Spirituality Center - Office Hours Tuesdays
- Art as Spiritual Practice - Tuesdays
- Mandala Meditation Group
- Abrahamic Interfaith Forum - Tuesday, March 20
Wednesday:
- Yoga Wednesday Mornings
- The ANTS Community Choir - Wednesdays
- Community Chapel - Wednesdays
- Weekly Peace Vigil on the Quad - Wednesdays
- Labyrinth Walk - Wednesdays
- Creating Healing Connections in Faith Communities - March 21, 2007
Thursday:
- UU Worship - Thursdays
- Thursday Art Night
- The Spirit Among Us: Group Spiritual Direction at ANTS
- Calling All Baptist Students - Thursday, March 22, 2007
- A Path Beyond Faith and Despair: Religion, Environmental Crisis, and Spiritual Life - March 22, 2007
Friday:
- Tenth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality - Friday, March 23
- Baptist Fellowship Sponsored Spring Retreat - Deadline MARCH 23
- March 23: ANTS Multicultural Festival!
Saturday:
- Dean Herzog's Installation - March 24, 2007
- PREPARE/ENRICH Counseling Programs - March 24
- Light Shining in the Darkness: Empowering Congregations to Effectively Address Violence Against Women - March 24
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Art Exhibit: "WomenWatch: A Celebration of Hope."
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March 5 - April 5
Reception: March 29
This week also marks the opening of a new exhibit in the Meetinghouse, a gathering of art celebrating women from around the world: "WomenWatch: A Celebration of Hope." The exhibit has a range of media, and represents ten international artists living and working in the Boston area. It will be up until April 5; a public reception (5 p.m.), with poetry reading (7 p.m.) and international music performance (8 p.m.), will be held in the Meetinghouse on Thursday, March 29. The public is warmly invited.
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Men's Fellowship - Mondays
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Men's Fellowship gatherings will be on Mondays from 1-1:50pm in the Berkeley Lounge (NOTE: Location changes are TBA). Our first meeting will be on Monday, February 5th. All are invited for times of prayer and open discussion. Interested? Come and see what we're all about!
Questions? Contact Jason Alspaugh at JAlspaugh@ants.edu or Amanda Ladegard at ALadegard@ants.edu
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SUGAR TALKS: An Interactive Exploration of Sugar's Bitter Aftertaste - Monday, March 19
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Monday, March 19th
7pm to 9 pm
Peck Room
Join us while we explore the past and present injustices perpetrated by Big Sugar - an industry more powerful than you might imagine. Come learn about Big Sugar's connection to:
-the slave trade
-modern-day human rights abuses
-environmental destruction
-the obesity epidemic
-government corruption
Learn how we can make a difference.
We hope to see you there!
*Presented by members of the "Justice Matters" class
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Meet the Walkers! And Join Them! - March 19 and March 22
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Monday, March 19th at 1pm come find out about the Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue with ANTS Ecology Minister, Cristina Cabrera, on Sturtevant Hall 3rd Floor - Ecology Minsitry Office.
The Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue starts in Northampton and finishes in Boston starting Friday, March 16 and ending Saturday, March 24, 2007. Andover-Newton will be hosting the walkers on Thursday, March 22nd and we will be offering an evening of worship and lecture with Dr. Roger Gottlieb. Join the walkers for the last leg of the walk or for the Saturday rally in Boston.
If you are interested but can't make it to Monday's info/coordination meeting with Cristina Cabrera, please email her at ccabrera@jackconway.com or call her at 617-872-8275 (cell)
Additional Walk Info:
For the walk schedule, please check out
http://www.climatewalk.org/schedule.htm
For March 22nd program at ANTS, please see below:
ARRIVAL HOST SITE NIGHT 7, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Road, Newton, MA: Approximately 4 PM
POTLUCK MEAL PROVIDED (for walkers lodging for the night only): 6 PM.
Generously provided by Newton Highlands Congregational Church.
EVENING WORSHIP/MEDITATION: 7:00 PM
EVENING PROGRAM: 7:30 PM: A Path Beyond Faith and Despair: Religion, Environmental Crisis, and Spiritual Life, Roger Gottlieb (users.wpi.edu/~gottlieb), PhD, Professor of Philosophy and author of many books including A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and Our Planet*s Future and This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, and Environment.
Location: Andover Newton Theological School (www.ants.edu), Stoddard Hall (next to new chapel under construction far end of campus).
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Faith, Health, and Spirituality Center - Office Hours Tuesdays
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Office Hours at the FHS Center in STurtevant
Tuesdays, 2-4pm.
Come up and visit!
Contact Joy Honen (Steward of the FHS Center) at DHonen@ants.edu for more information
Brita Gill-Austern, faculty director of the FHS program and ministries, bgillaus@ants.edu
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Art as Spiritual Practice - Tuesdays
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Tuesdays 6:30-8:30
in the Studio of the Faith, Health, and Spirituality Center (third Floor Sturtevant)
Come join a small group of creative people exploring art as spiritual practice and meditation. Previous experience with mandalas, illuminating pages, or art as journaling is helpful, but not essential. Time to create and dialogue. Most materials supplied or bring your own. Free will donation. Drop in once in a while or come every week.
Questions? Email Joy at joyful_i_am@yahoo.com
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Mandala Meditation Group
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Tuesdays, 6-8pm, February 27, March 6, 13, 20, 27
FHS Center: Third Floor Sturtevant, Room 31
Presented by the FHS Visual Arts Ministry
Facilitated by Joy Honen (Resident Teaching Artist)
Come explore the healing and integrative nature of mandala creation. Mandala, which means "circle" or "sacred wholeness" in the Sanskrit language, is a circular creation that can be drawn, painted, collaged or even danced. Mandala art has been used in nearly every place and time in the history of the world as a means of personal growth, spiritual transformation, healing and as a way to connect to earth's energy and the wisdom of nature. Both in their creation and as a focus for meditation, mandalas point us to a center within each of us by which everything is ordered. Mandala creation within this small group will strive to be safe, centering and creative.
No previous artistic experience is necessary.
We are all made in the image of a creating god.
$10 fee to cover the cost of materials.
Limited to 5 participants who can commit to being at all five sessions
Advance sign-up requested with Joy at joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.
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Abrahamic Interfaith Forum - Tuesday, March 20
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March 6, 13 and 20
6:30-9pm
Temple Beth El, 2 Concord Ave., Belmont
More info: http://www.firstchurchcambridge.org
An Interfaith Forum on Repentance and Reconcilation sponsored by First Church in Cambridge. Professors Greg Mobley, Or Rose and Farid Esack are featured speakers. Refreshments, conversation, music of DUNYA.
Contact: Edie Howe
Email: edithowe@aol.com
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Yoga Wednesday Mornings
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8:00 a.m. in the Peck Room
YOGA with Dana Moore, Kripalu Certified Instructor
MTS from Yale Divinity School
Every Wednesday 8 am in Peck Conference Room
FREE to all students, spouses, staff and faculty (mats available)
Sponsored by Faith Health and Spirituality
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The ANTS Community Choir - Wednesdays
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Wednesdays, 11:50 - 12:15
In the Chapel
Join us for rehearsal from 11:50am to 12:15pm every Wednesday in the Chapel. All welcome! No singing experience necessary! Most Wednesdays, the song we learn and rehearse will also be the anthem in that day's Community Chapel (1pm in Colby). So come out and support community singing, and let a joyful noise resound from the Hill!
Questions? Contact Professor Matthew Myer Boulton: mboulton@ants.edu.
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Community Chapel Chapel - Wednesdays
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1:00 p.m.
Colby Chapel
March 21: Prof. Brita Gill-Austern (Faith, Health, and Spirituality Service)
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Weekly Peace Vigil on the Quad - Wednesdays
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Join the weekly Peace Vigil on the quad every Wednesday at noon. This vigil will take place every Wednesday throughout the year as we take an hour of our time to stand in unity against various forms of injustice and violence in our world today. It's a great opportunity to commune with each other and get a chance to hear what the Peace Fellowship is up to if you're not able to make it to the meetings. Please feel free to bring scripture, poetry or a topic to discuss. Bring signs, songs and smiles.
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Open Labyrinth Walks - WEDS
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Wednesdays
From 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Meetinghouse
Martha Bays and Theresa Stirling
MBays@ants.edu or TStirling@ants.edu
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Creating Healing Connections in Faith Communities - March 21, 2007
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A Day on the Hill
Wednesday March 21, 2007
9:00 -3:15
Peck Conference Room
Worcester Hall
A health and healing ministry was an integral part of the early Christian church. Wholistic care was a prevalent practice. Over the centuries with the explosion of medical and scientific knowledge, faith communities deferred to the medical profession as being the more qualified to address issues related to physical and mental health. Faith communities reserved spiritual care as their domain. Within recent decades, both medicine and faith communities have come to realize the benefits of a mutual partnership with integrated care. This alliance yields better results in healing and in the prevention of disease.
Come and join us to find out how your faith community can strengthen the healing connections in your health ministry.
Cost for the day, including lunch is $35. Fee for students is $25. Register with Jennifer Shaw at jshaw@ants.edu or call 617 964 1100 ext. 228. Mail checks payable to ANTS to Jennifer Shaw, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Rd, Newton Centre, MA 02459
Presenters:
Dr. Sophia Harrell, Acting Director Congregational Health Ministry Program
Professor Brita Gill-Austern, Austin Philip Guiles Professor of Psychology and Pastoral Care, Director of Program in Faith, Health and Spirituality
Kathleen Zagata, RN, MS Health Minister, First Congregational Church of Winchester
Julianna Donofrio, Heather Lucas, Nalysnyk Yaroslav, Jan Whitten, Panelist. all students enrolled in program
More info: http://www.ants.edu/community/events/2007/032107healing.pdf
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UU Worship - Thursdays
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Thursdays at 1:00 p.m.
in the Meetinghouse
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Thursday Art Night
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Open studio every Thursday in the Lower Studio of the
Meetinghouse, 7-10 pm.
Drop in for as long as you can stay.
Contact Joy, Resident Teaching Artist at ANTS, with questions. (joyful_i_am@yahoo.com)
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The Spirit Among Us: Group Spiritual Direction at ANTS
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Two groups, Thursdays, Feb. 8 - May 3
"Spiritual Direction is a way of leading us to see and follow the real Director - the Holy Spirit - hidden in the depths of our soul."
Thomas Merton
This is a unique opportunity to explore our own relationships with The Holy and to learn more about accompanying others on their spiritual journeys. Spiritual Direction helps participants enhance their awareness of God or the Sacred in every day experiences and make life affirming responses to the gifts of Grace. Following the tradition of the Desert Mothers and Fathers, these group experiences will focus on self-discovery and reality as paths to choosing "Life."
Two groups will begin in February, 2007 Meeting in Sturtevant Hall: Center for FHS, 3rd Floor, Room 32 Each group is limited to 8 participants. Cost for 6 sessions: Sliding Scale: $40-$80
Group for all denominations: Thursdays: 10AM - Noon 2/15, 3/01, 3/15, 3/29, 4/19, 5/3
Group for Unitarian Universalists: Thursdays: 10AM - Noon 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, 3/22, 4/12, 4/26
Directed by The Rev. Jade Angelica, certified spiritual director, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. Rev. Angelica received her MDIv from HDS in 1992, is a UU Community Minister, and is currently enrolled in the DMin program for Faith, Health and Spirituality at ANTS.
To register for the group, please contact Rev. Angelica (781-648-1525 or jangelica@uuma.org).
Financial Assistance is available. So all may attend in good health, groups will be fragrance free.
Sponsored by Faith, Health and Spirituality, Andover Newton Theological School
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Calling All Baptist Students - Thursday, March 22, 2007
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(especially American Baptists)
Come, explore opportunities for ministry with American Baptist Churches, USA
The Rev. Richard G. Harris
American Baptist Personnel Services
National Ministries
American Baptist Churches
Valley Forge, PA
Mr. Harris will be happy to discuss various opportunities for ministry calls and missionary appointments within the local churches, schools, agencies, organizations and institutions related to the American Baptist Churches. The American Baptist Personnel Services provides resources, including the Profiles of qualified candidates, for the position searches of most organizations related to the ABC,USA. Enrollment packets for the Profile are available in the office of Nancy Nienhuis, Dean of Students.
Mr. Harris will also have information about financial aid from the denomination, Chaplaincy opportunities and resources for ministry within National Minstries.
Available for interviews
Thursday, March 22, 2007
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Worcester, Room 303
Email: Richard.harris@abc-usa.org
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A Path Beyond Faith and Despair: Religion, Environmental Crisis, and Spiritual Life - March 22, 2007
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7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
March 22, 2007
Stoddard Hall
Roger S. Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and more than 100 articles on political philosophy, environmentalism, religious life, the Holocaust and disability.
He is editor of six academic book series, contributing editor to Tikkun Magazine, and is on the editorial board of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology and Worldviews: Religion, Nature, Culture.
His two most recent books are A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future and The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology.
More info: http://www.ants.edu/community/events/2007/032207earthwitness.htm
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Tenth International Symposium on Business and Spirituality - Friday, March 23
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March 23, 2007
at Babson College
This event will inspire you, challenge you, and help you to build your business based on your values. Please join us if you want to:
-Make a positive impact on the local and global community, and actively contribute to the greater good.
-Create corporate cultures that engage all stakeholders in open-hearted dialogue embracing the diversity of ideas, beliefs, faiths, and backgrounds.
-Foster integrity and honesty by modeling congruent and principled leadership.
-Rejoice in the beauty of the moment, revel in life, celebrate growth and learning, reflect on discoveries, rise to challenges, and appreciate fun and humor.
The symposium seeks to join with others in living these ideals, and welcomes support and partnership with individuals and organizations who share these values.
The Tenth International Symposium will again feature several successful business leaders who will share the knowledge they've gained and the lessons they've learned as they've taken their deepest values to work and succeeded in changing our world through their business.
Keynote speakers: Tom and Kate Chappell, founders of Tom's of Maine
Our featured speakers include:
Aaron Feuerstein, owner and CEO of Maldin Mills
Frances Moore Lappé, noted author and activist
David Korten, author and engaged citizen
J. Robert Ouimet,chairman and CEO of Holding O.C.B. Inc. and Ouimet-Tomasso Inc.
Linda Ferguson, president and owner of New Paradigms Alliance, Inc.
Registration Fees:
Price: $95 by March 1, $125 after March 1
SBN Members: $75 by March 1, $105 after March 1
Cosponsored by:
Andover Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
Hebrew College, Brookline, MA
...and others
More information and registration:
http://www3.babson.edu/Events/spiritualityandbusiness/Event-Overview.cfm
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Baptist Fellowship Sponsored Spring Retreat - Deadline MARCH 23
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April 13-15
4pm Friday - 4pm Sunday
Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA
Deadline approaching for retreat reservations.
Final reminder - The Baptist Fellowship is sponsoring a spring retreat, OPEN TO ALL, at Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA. This should be a relaxing time after the Easter week busyness. $60 per night, includes all meals. Make your reservations today - deposit required by March 23rd. Scholarships available. Contact Carol Hayward, chayward@ants.edu
Contact: Carol Hayward
Email: chayward@ants.edu
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March 23: ANTS Multicultural Festival!
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Dear ANTS Community,
I am writing to invite you to once again participate in a "Multicultural Festival" at ANTS. You may recall that last year we did this in January. This year we will be doing it on Friday, March 23, at 6:30 pm in the Peck Room. I hope that many of you will once again participate. Mangyang Imsong is helping me organize this, and it will be co-sponsored by the ANTS international students and my office.
Last year was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is ANTS! Many of you shared something and it was a great evening for everyone. I hope you will be able to do so again. We want to celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from. This will be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring something that reflects some component of your heritage. I will also supply food through my office so if you don't have time to cook, come anyway! We will have plenty.
If you would like to present something from your background (poem, music, whatever) please let me know and we'll add you to the program. In any case, I hope all of you will come!
I look forward to hearing from you,
Nancy
Dr. Nancy Nienhuis
Dean of Students and Community Life
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Dean Herzog's Installation - March 24, 2007
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March 24, 2007
2:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church in Newton
The formal ceremony in recognition of William R. Herzog II as Dean of the Faculty of Andover Newton will take place at First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon Street, Newton Centre, MA on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. All are invited!
If you do plan to come, please let us know, so we know how many to expect, by emailing David Ames, Assistant to the Dean, at dames@ants.edu.
See you there!
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PREPARE/ENRICH Counseling Programs - March 24
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Saturday, March 24, 2007, 9:30am-4:30pm
Peck Conference Room (in lower level of Worcester Hall),
Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Community of Andover Newton Students (UUCANS)
Come join the Reverend Robin Zucker as she teaches seminarians, clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral counseling programs when working with couples. This workshop will enrich ministry options for clergy and laypeople and expand therapeutic options for counselors.
You will receive:
- Comprehensive Counselor Manual - step -by -step instructions for administration and feedback of the Program.
- 5 Inventories for premarital and married couples at all stages of life.
- Building a Strong Marriage Workbook - exercises for couples to complete.
- Complimentary Scoring of one set on our new Online Systemâ"use it for yourself or a couple you are working with, a $29.95 value.
The cost is $170 per person. Please bring brown bag lunch. Coffee and pastries provided.
Additional Information and registration: http://www.flowingforce.com/prepare_training.htm
Rev. Robin Zucker: flowingforce@comcast.net
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Light Shining in the Darkness: Empowering Congregations to Effectively Address Violence Against Women - March 24
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"The number of reported incidents of domestic violence and the brutality of individual attacks has been growing steadily for a decade. Occurrences jumped nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2006, with the largest increase - 15 percent - recorded between 2005 and last year, according to data from the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and sexual assault." (Burlington Free Press, Feb. 4, 2007)
This and other recent articles in the Burlington Free Press have raised awareness of the prevalence of violence against women in Vermont. Marie Bean, Christina Findlay and Nicole Polycrones, Master of Divinity students at Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center, MA, have created a retreat for pastors and lay-persons from Vermont and New Hampshire to explore how their congregations and communities can become involved on the grassroots level and make a difference for those in their own communities.
Bean, Findlay and Polycrones are members of Dr. Nancy Nienhuis' Justice Matters course at Andover Newton Theological School and decided to create a retreat focused on violence against women as a project for that class. Bean and Findlay, residents of Vermont, were very moved by the brutal death of Michelle Gardner-Quinn last fall. The brutality of this crime following several other deadly acts of violence against women came as a shock to both of them. After further research into the incidence of domestic violence in Vermont, they, with Polycrones, decided to offer this opportunity.
Plans are to present a program that would give clergy and lay-persons the tools they would need to go back to their congregations and communities and:
o Raise the issue of violence against women in their worship practices;
o Recognize the flags that indicate abuse may be happening;
o Know what can and cannot be done in abusive situations;
o Be able to create a process within their churches to nurture and heal survivors, family members and communities of violence against women.
The retreat will be held at the Atkinson Retreat Center in Newbury, VT on Saturday, March 24, 2007 . Registration begins at 9:30 AM. At 10 AM a panel will present information on various aspects of violence against women. After lunch break-out sessions will explore tools available to pastors and laypersons. The panel consists of:
o Judy Szeg, Domestic and Sexual Violence Specialist for Safeline, Inc.
o Stephen McArthur, Activist & Educator on Domestic Violence,
o Tracy Penfield of SafeArt,
o Gyla Dziobek of Department for Children and Families
o Rev. Sue Marie Baskette, pastor of Bakersfield UCC and UVM Chaplin
A continental breakfast and light lunch will be provided.
The retreat is open to anyone who wishes to learn more about what they can do to effectively address violence against women. There is a registration fee of $15 before March 17. Registration after March 17 will be $20. The fee covers the cost of the meals and. materials.
For a brochure or more information, call 617-527-1318 or 802-482-6414 or
Email: cfindlayvt@ants.edu, or marieszack@earthlink.net
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