CPJ Training Day Schedule

COMPASSION, PEACE and JUSTICE TRAINING DAY

April 5, 2013

8:30 am– 4:30 pmat 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)