May 7th, 2012 — 12:40am
Come join us in celebrating another season of Abraham’s Tent on May 10th at Congregation Miskan Israel from 6 to 8 p.m.
We’ll have a light meal provided and hope that you can bring a small dessert or some beverage (soda, lemonade, etc.) to share.
We’ll review the season and discuss how we can improve for next year.
RSVP to Melanie at Columbus house: mswienski@columbushouse.org or telephone 203-401-4400, ext. 106.
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March 31st, 2012 — 11:11am
The One Great Hour of Sharing Offering to be received on Palm Sunday. Where will the coming year’s emergencies arise? Will Presbyterian Disaster Assistance have the resources to respond? One Great Hour of Sharing enables our denomination, alongside many other communities of faith, to serve God’s people when their needs are most desperate.
On Palm Sunday we will receive our annual contributions to One Great Hour of Sharing. Please use the special offering envelopes, or write OGHS on the memo line of your checks.
When violent windstorms tore across America’s heartland earlier this month, bringing death, homelessness, and destruction to communities in the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys, we were there to help. Response teams from Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, relying on funds raised in last year’s One Great Hour of Sharing, were promptly on the scene, providing emergency food and shelter, and coordinating the work of volunteers beginning the work of recovery and rebuilding.
Thank you for your generous support!
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March 19th, 2012 — 1:39am
April 15th, 2012 6:30pm
First Presbyterian Church of New Haven
704 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06511
Speaker: Bruce Barrett, the film’s director and Founder of IWagePeace
Combatants for Peace Flyer
Combatants for Peace Poster
The Billboard from Bethlehem, an award-winning documentary film stars The Combatants For Peace, a coalition of former Israeli Defense Force Fighters and Palestinian Resistance fighters in the Holy Land who have renounced violence and committed themselves to a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It also tells the story of Bruce Barrett, an American billboard company owner, who convinces The Combatants For Peace to recruit Israeli and Palestinian children to paint a giant peace mural billboard inside the West Bank of Palestine.
The documentary weaves the tale of billboard design with eight Combatants’ stories of personal transformation from wielders of violence to combatants for peace.
The Billboard from Bethlehem is winner of
- Mondavi Award for Peace and Cultural Understanding at Napa Sonoma Film Festival
- Best Long/Short Form Documentary at Reel Art Film Festival
- Best Humanitarian Film at Bushwick Film Festival
- Documentary Star Award at the Indie Gathering
“I watched this [film] shedding tears both of sadness and of hope.” Rabbi Herbert Brockman, Ph.D., D.D. Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden, CT.
“By bringing together Palestinians and Israelis, Barrett provides an opportunity to break down stereotypes and to foster human community across borders and across cultures.” Dr. Peter E. Makari, Executive, Middle East and Europe, Global Ministries of the United Church of Christ and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
About the event speaker/ director of the film
Bruce Barrett, a Connecticut billboard company owner?turned?peacemaker created www.IWagePeace.org as a primer on active non-violence peace-making in 2006. He received the Living Waters Award from the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ for working with youth and promoting peace and diversity. IWagePeace’s work includes organizing The Combatants for Peace Tours, I Wage Peace Walks and the painting of peace billboard signs which it then posts on the interstate highways of Connecticut.
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