SAVE THE DATE!
ISSUES & ACTION 2013
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 2013
The
NJ Council of Churches annual Issues & Action event will be held on
Saturday, January 26, 2013 at Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, NJ from 8:30
a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Our
theme is “Locked Up, Locked Out, Locked Away” which will address incarceration
in New Jersey and the United States
.
Speakers will include:
Professor Mark Taylor
Princeton Theological Seminary
Author of “Executed God”
Professor George Hunsinger
Princeton Theological Seminary
Founder of National Religious Campaign Against
Torture
Ms. Bonnie Kerness, Esq., Coordinator
American Friends Service Committee’s Healing
and Transformative Justice Project
The Reverend Samuel K. Atchison, President
Trenton Ecumenical Area Ministry
(Leader in addressing the issue of re-entry of
prisoners into society)
Assemblywomen Bonnie Watson Coleman
New Jersey Legislature, District 15
Legislative Initiatives
The
design of the program will provide opportunities for participants to engage in
dialogue and to discuss how their congregation might be engaged in prison
ministries.
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