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Archive for November, 2007
« Previous EntriesLPAC’s Guide to Holistic Program Development
Friday, November 30th, 2007I’m live blogging the quarterly training for LPAC’s Transforming Youth Capacity Building Project. Jose Montes, the principal LPAC trainer on the project, has developed a number of outstanding Guidebooks and Workbooks to support the training process. This quarter’s theme is program development. Holistic Ministry Program Life Cycle I. Assessment Program development begins with assessing current [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, November 30th, 2007The Little Ewok Chico Laboy + From Thanksgiving 2007 photo set
Somebody Still Cares, New Orleans
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Converge: Where Passion Meets Compassion Chain Reaction is partnering with Somebody Cares America to sponsor Converge, a “Compassion Crusade” in New Orleans, March 10-20, 2008. HT: Diana Hernandez
Open Questions
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007From the “Thoughts on racial profiling; Saudi gang rape; and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn” post below. Check it out for context. In the context of global jihad, Islamic fundamentalism such as the Saudi rape victim experienced, and evidence that would-be international terrorists are overwhelmingly disaffected Arab males, am I wrong to believe that profiling Arabs racially [...]
Wednesday Weekly Webcast
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007In Whose Image?
Does it?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands; it lays hold of me.†– Martin Luther (More quotes about the Bible here.) How much does this speak to you? Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by [...]
Former Xcel Staff Gives Keynote Speach at ACS Graduation
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Former Generation Xcel site director Rafael Santiago recently graduated as a Child Protective Case Worker for NYC’s Administration for Children’s Services. His classmates and instructors selected him from over 450 new case workers to speak at graduation to an audience that included guests, departmental leaders, and the agency Commissioner. From the ACS website: “Being a [...]
NYS Commissioner: Why
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007LPAC Holistic Leadership Series Hon. Gladys Carrion, Esq., Commissioner NYS Office of Children and Family Services “How Faith Communities Can Help with the Crisis of Children and Families of Color” Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera of Latino Pastoral Action Center hosted Commissioner Gladys Carrion of the NYS Office of Children and Family Services yesterday as part [...]
Thoughts on racial profiling; Saudi gang rape; and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Monday, November 26th, 2007I live in the fastest growing Arabic community in New York City. Like many Brooklyn neighborhoods, Bay Ridge has been home to successive waves of immigrants, including Scandinavian, Italian, Greek, Puerto Rican, Asian and many others. Since first moving here in 1990, I have watched Fifth Avenue transform from a typical commercial Brooklyn corridor dotted [...]
Outreach magazine has a thing for my friends
Monday, November 26th, 2007Liz Rios joins recent cover boy Dimas Salaberrios on the cover of the latest issue of Outreach magazine. She’s profiled as an emerging Latina leader as part of the issue’s “Hispanics in America” focus: Raised by a single mom in a community of single mothers in the Manhattan projects, Puerto-Rican born Elizabeth Rios never questioned [...]
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