Church in Metropolitan Areas Spring Conference
Monday, April 28, 2008 - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Location: Diocese Retreat Center, Los Angeles CA
Contact: The Reverend Geoffrey B. Curtiss
(201) 792-3563
gcurtiss@allsaintshoboken.com
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Will Wauters will be our host. Respond to Geoff Curtiss before April 16th regarding your participation and accomodations. Do not book with the Center separately. You can arrive on Sunday night and sleep at the center. The conference will close after dinner on Tuesday night for those who want to fly that night.
The cost of the conference is $150 per person ($100 for dues paying members of CMA). The cost includes room and board for two nights. Meals (Monday night and Tuesday noon) that are not the center may require people to pay for individually.
Proposed Time frame for Spring Conference:
Monday, April 28th
Breakfast at the Center
9:00 a.m. Opening Gathering with Bible Study check in and resourcing
12 noon Lunch at the Center
1:00 p.m. Site visits
5:00 p.m. Eucharist Worship (place yet to be determined)
6:00 p.m. Dinner and conversations (place yet to be determined)
Tuesday, April 29th
Breakfast at the Center
8:30 a.m. Bible Study
10:00 a.m. site visit
12 noon lunch
1:00 p.m. site visit
4:00 p.m. Review and Reflection, Planning for Church in the Metropolitan Areas
6:00 p.m. Dinner at the Center
Close
Our focus will include a look at Los Angeles from urban pastoral concerns.
1) Homeboy Industries-one of the premier gang programs in the country.
Gets gang members into productive jobs as well as surrounding them with necessary counseling and other programs to secure a life outside of gangs. Fr Greg Boyle, SJ is founder.
2) Worker Education and Resource Center-a workforce development program that is mainly run by the huge SEIU Local 721.
We will focus on contextual learning and lifting people into better paying jobs.
3) Center for Human and Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles-a center for the immigrant community to give us an overview of the immigrant situation.
4) The LA Catholic Worker- They have been on Skid Row for nearly 40 years now. LA has around 70,000 homeless on any given night.
Though it has cleaned up quite a bit, the Row is still worthy of our concern.
We will try and visit with Alice Callaghan, an Episcopal priest, who has run a program for children and families in the Row for over 20 years.
5) Jubilee Ministries is a Coalition of 4 Episcopal congregation that work together to provide creative ministries to various urban areas in Long Beach, Inglewood and LA.
We will meet with Rev Jaime Acton-Edwards at St Stephens in Hollywood.
The Church in Metropolitan Areas will be meeting next
November 17th – 19th hosted by the Diocese of Southern Ohio
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