COMPASSION, PEACE and JUSTICE TRAINING DAY
April 5, 2013
8:30 am
– 4:30 pm
at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Theme: Presbyterians for Food Justice
8:00 Registration (Foyer
– Main Level)
Coffee and light breakfast (Radcliffe
Room – Main Level)
8:30 Welcome
and Worship (Main Sanctuary – Second Level)
Sara Lisherness, Director, Compassion,
Peace and Justice Ministry, PC(USA)
Rev. Roger Gench, Senior
Pastor, NYAPC; Member, Presbyterian Mission Agency Board
Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, Director, Office of
Public Witness, PC(USA), preaching
9:20 – 10:35 Panel Discussion: Models
for Food Justice Organizing (Main Sanctuary – Second
Level)
Moderator:
Andrew Kang Bartlett, Associate, National Hunger Concerns,
Presbyterian Hunger Program
Rev. Noelle Damico, Associate, Fair Food
Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program
Rev. Ashley Goff, Minister for Spiritual
Formation, Church of the Pilgrims PC(USA)
Cynthia White, Coordinator,
Self-Development of People
10:45 -
12:00 Workshops: Session 1
One Body, Many Parts: Collaborating
for a Just Food System
Andrew
Kang Bartlett, Associate, National
Hunger Concerns, and Noelle
Damico, Associate, Fair
Food Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program
(Park Level Main –
Basement Level)
Global Discipleship, Food and Hunger
Ryan Smith, Presbyterian Representative to the United Nations
(Lincoln Parlor – Main Level)
Grassroots Organizing for Food Justice
Robert L.
Brashear, West Park Presbyterian
Church, New York City, and John Scotland, member, Board of Directors,
Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association (PHEWA)
(John Quincy Adams Room –
Main Level)
Harvesting a Healthy Farm Bill: What's at stake?
Nelson
Cowan, Intern, Office of
Public Witness, Mary
Minette, Director for
Environmental Education & Advocacy, Washington Office, Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, and Lisa
Griffith, Outreach
Coordinator, National Family Farm Coalition
(Lincoln Chapel –
Main Level; No Food or Drink allowed in Chapel)
Oasis in the Desert
Cynthia White, Coordinator, Self-Development of People
(Docherty Center / Library – Main Level)
Shedding Light: Bringing the Church’s Voice to
the Public Debate
Alexa
Smith, Associate, Joining Hands
against Hunger, and Valery
Nodem, Associate,
International Hunger Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program
(Main Sanctuary – Second Level)
12:10 –
1:10 LUNCH (Radcliffe
Room – Main Level)
(Park
Level Main, on the Basement level, is available for overflow lunch seating)
Lunch Discussion: Organizing
and Advocacy in Solidarity Movements
Moderator: Sara Lisherness,
Director, Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry
Gerardo
Reyes Chavez , staff member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
Bishop Don
diXon Williams, Associate Director for African American Church Relations,
Bread for the World
1:20 –
2:35 Workshops:
Session 2
Want Peace ? Work for Justice ! A Practical Workshop Leading
to Advocacy
Leslie Woods,
Representative for Domestic Poverty & Environmental Issues, and Catherine
Gordon, Representative for International Issues,
Office of Public Witness
(Park
Level Main – Basement Level)
Public-Private Partnership: Working Together to Reduce Hunger
Ruth
Farrell, Coordinator, Presbyterian Hunger
Program, and Noelle Damico, Associate, Fair Food
Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program
(Lincoln
Parlor – Main Level)
West Africa Initiative (WAI): Sustainable Agriculture that
Builds Rural Communities
Cynthia White,
Coordinator, Self-Development of People, Luke Asikoye,
Associate, International Disaster Assistance, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance,
and Valery Nodem, Associate, International Hunger Concerns,
Presbyterian Hunger Program
(John
Quincy Adams Room – Main Level)
Discerning Peace and the Federal Budget
Mark
Davidson, Chair of the Peace Discernment
Steering Team, Roger Powers, Consultant, and Jessica
Hawkinson, former staff, Presbyterian Ministry at the UN
Office.
(Lincoln Chapel –
Main Level; No Food or Drink allowed in Chapel)
Good Food: A Theological and Moral Framework for Engaging Our
Food System
Jennifer
R. Ayres, Assistant Professor of Religious
Education, Director of the Program in Religious Education, Candler School of
Theology
(Docherty Center /
Library – Main Level)
Food Justice, Earth Community, and Eucharist
Rebecca Barnes,
Associate, Environmental Ministries
(Main
Sanctuary – Second Level)
2:45 –
4:00 Workshops: Session 3
Following Jesus onto the Public Square
Mark Koenig, Director, Presbyterian Ministry at the United
Nations
(Park Level Main – Basement Level)
Community Organizing: Local and National Cooperation for
Justice Advocacy Work
J. Herbert Nelson, Director, Office of Public Witness
(Radcliffe Room – Main Level)
Practicing a Theology of
Enough with Food – for ourselves, for our communities, for our land
Melanie Hardison, Associate, Enough for Everyone, Presbyterian
Hunger Program
(Lincoln Parlor – Main Level)
Mabuhay- Long Live
Nancy Eng MacNeill, Associate, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
(John Quincy Adams Room – Main Level)
Raising Taxes and Raising
Crops: A Report from the Tax Reform Study Team
Chris Iosso, Coordinator, Advisory
Committee on Social Witness Policy, and Edith Rasell,
Minister for Economic Justice, United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness
Ministries
(Lincoln Chapel –
Main Level; No Food or Drink allowed in Chapel)
Seeds: What is the big
deal?
Andrew Kang Bartlett, Associate, National
Hunger Concerns, Presbyterian Hunger Program, Rebecca Barnes,
Associate, Environmental Ministries, and Ruth Farrell,
Coordinator, Presbyterian Hunger Program
(Docherty Center /
Library – Main Level)
4:10 –
4:30 Sending (Main
Sanctuary – Second Level)
