Interfaith Peace Builders' Delegation to Palestine
July 28-August 8 - Lamarre-Vincent's Begging Bowl is Out - Halfway to the Goal!
NHCC Executive Director Lamarre-Vincent has been invited to Israel/Palestine as part of an interfaith peacebuilders' delegation. However, by June 21, matching funds must be raised to make this possible. The overall cost of the interfaith delegation to meet with peacemakers in Israel/Palestine is $4,000. A challenge grant of $1,500 has been received so the additional $2,500 must be raised within the next three weeks.
As of June 2, 2008 over $1,000 has been received gratefully and humbly. You can make this delegation widely owned and incur a sense of obligation on my part to share upon return, please give, ask your church to help out. You have my everlasting gratitude.
See details by going to the site map. Donations can be made online through Network for Good secure server on the NHCC home page.
http://www.nhchurches.org/
Interfaith Health Care Reform Consultation
June 2-4, 2008
Cleveland, OH
It is with great enthusiasm that I write to you about this week's Cleveland, Ohio, Interfaith Health Care Reform Meeting. On behalf of the New Hampshire Council of Churches, thank you for all you have done to this point in NH for a unified voice for reform.
I have a two minute request. Click onto the web link below for a revelation regarding not only the content (role of faith in health care reform) but also the medium that allow many more than the seventy people in the room to follow along and benefit into the future!!!
http://thedifference.missinglink.biz/the-difference/interfaith-health-care-reform
The website has been established by our meeting facilitators from The Difference. This site currently contains important information about the meeting in nearly real-time.
How many consultations have we all attended, taking notes, trying to both participate and record? Here is a state-of-the-art use of technology so YOU can be a "virtual" participant. You will also have access to the entire product of the consultation.
For more go to Faithful Health Care Reform page.
NH Maquiladora Delegation Returns from Mexico
The first major milestone of Lamarre-Vincent's sabbatical was accomplished this past week. A delegation organized by the NH - American Friends Service Committee has just returned from a 3-day visit with maquiladora workers in northern Mexico, where job creation has been affected by NAFTA and other trade agreements. The 10-member group, which included Lamarre-Vincent of the New Hampshire Council of Churches, three NH-AFSC staff, labor leaders and students met with employees of U.S.-based multi-nationals, who described the long hours, low pay, and dangerous working conditions they face every day. Yet they also described impressive organizing for change against great odds.
As I learn more about building this website I will be adding photos, streaming video and blog essays. For now, trust me, there was no more powerful way to learn about detention of families applying for refugee or asylum status (at the T. Don Hutto Immigration and Customs facility in Taylor, TX run by the Corrections Corporation of America in what was a medium security prison), the lives of Mexican workers and their families, and the impact of NAFTA.
NH & the Global Church
New Hampshire Council of Churches Executive Director Sabbatical
This summer David Lamarre-Vincent, Executive Director of the NHCC is on sabbatical.
The primary theme is how the diversity of the global church in New Hampshire with riches of ethnic/racial/language/religious diversity can be transformative of the whole church in NH.
Follow him from a delegation on trade, migration and workers rights in the US-Mexico border region, to a faithful health care reform consultation, to a Whole Communities Thinking retreat, to visits to NH ethnic, racial and global language churches. He will be building this website with blogs, photos, stories, videos and more.
The first leg of the sabbatical will be May 21 to 26, 2008. Lamarre-Vincent heads to Texas and northern Mexico next week with a delegation to look into trade, migration, and workers rights in the US-Mexico border region.
Contact him at
David@NHchurches.org or
David@BibleNH.org or call the New Hampshire Council of Churches / New Hampshire Bible Society office for reports on the trip or to book a speaking engagement for this fall.
Additional information about speaking topics from the sabbatical will be posted on this sabbatical website.
Summer Hours for New Hampshire Council of Churches & New Hampshire Bible Society
The office will not be staffed from June 23 to July 28, 2008. However, the NHCC & NHBS will still be available daily for business.
Please leave a voice mail at 603 224-1352 or email Jefferson. She and volunteers from the NHCC and NHBS boards will continue to provide all of our usual and customary services.
Regular open office hours will be kept up to June 20 and start up again July 25 for the remainder of the summer. As always, do call before coming so an appointment is made.
Summer Hours for New Hampshire Council of Churches & New Hampshire Bible Society
The NHCC and NHBS office is staffed year round from 10 AM to 2 PM by administrative assistant, Laura Jefferson. You can reach her at 603 224-1352 or Laura@NHchurches.org for NHCC & Laura@BibleNH.org for NHBS.
From June 23 through July 25, the office will not have regular open hours. The NHCC & NHBS will still be available daily for business. Please leave a voice mail at 224-1352 or email for Laura Jefferson at the above phone number and email addresses. She and volunteers from the NHCC and NHBS boards will continue to provide all of our usual and customary services.
Regular open office hours will be kept up to June 20 and start up again July 28 for the remainder of the summer. Always do call before coming so an appointment is made.
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