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“I am my School” and other Student Prayers for New York
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010[Ed. note: Originally published in August 2010 issue of Tri-State Voice] Goliaths fall when adults like Saul get out of David’s way. For the last twelve months, student leaders from greater New York have proven this truism time and again. Now some are organizing a citywide prayer walk of 1,600 public schools the weekend of [...]
Joel R. Rivera for NY State Assembly: Special Election Tomorrow
Monday, June 1st, 2009Tomorrow, my friend Joel R. Rivera confronts underdog status as the community candidate rather than “the machine candidate” in a special election for the New York State Assembly’s 77th Assembly seat. If you live in the South Bronx neighborhoods of Morris Heights, Highbridge, and Morrisania, be sure to vote. Call 866-VOTE-NYC for polling locations. Here [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, March 20th, 2009Rev. Ray Spending the day at Latino Pastoral Action Center, holistic ministry pioneers in the South Bronx. Since the 1960s, founding visionary Rev. Ray Rivera championed the ideas of community development long before they were called community development. Today, he invests his experience and wisdom in emerging holistic ministry leaders throughout New York City and [...]
Friday Foto Finish: Remembering the Truly Poor During America’s Economic Crisis
Friday, September 26th, 2008One of the billions of human beings around the world who subsist on less than $1 a day. Rev. Ray Rivera from LPAC reminded me today about the Micah Challenge, an international effort to mobilize Christians against poverty. “The campaign aims to deepen Christian engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities, and to influence leaders of [...]
Everything Must Change, Part 3
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change Tour visits LPAC, Bronx 119 Photos, including Brian McLaren, Ray Rivera, Jay Bakker, Becky Garrison, Lisa Sharon Harper, Alexie Torres-Fleming, Gabriel Salguerro, Jose Humphreys, Liz Rios, David Ramos, Luis Alvarez, Latino Leadership Circle, and LPAC. If your browser cannot display the Photo Viewer, you can view the pics at Flickr. [...]
Equipping, Educating, and Empowering Transformational Youth Ministry
Saturday, December 1st, 2007LPAC Transforming Youth Capacity Building Project Quarterly Training, 11/30/07 – 12/1/07 If the Pictobrowser doesn’t work, check out the original photo set here.
LPAC’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 [...]
Inter-Generational Wisdom
Friday, October 5th, 2007Rev. Dr. Ray Rivera of Latino Pastoral Action Center imparts 40 years of holistic ministry wisdom and experience to New York City youth workers as part of the three-year, federally funded Transforming Youth (TY) Capacity Building Project. At a ceremony at LPAC last Friday, Rev. Ray presented grants totaling $42,000 to five TY partner agencies, [...]