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Justice Education Experiences
One of the purposes of the SLC’s
10 month process is to help peopleidentify personally with injustice,
suffering, and pain in the world. We
do this so that individuals will deter-mine to stop participating in the
systems that create and perpetuate
poverty and other kinds of oppression
in the world. We also do this so that
some will take up the task of working
to reform the systems and eliminate
the inequities that are so prevalent in
today’s culture.
For inspiration toward this end,
we have scheduled a number of monthly talks to be given by people in
our community who have something
to say about all this. The contexts for their work vary, but their purposes
are remarkably similar: to work
towards a more just society.
If you have an idea for a speaker
or topic, please contact Steve at SLC.
Don’t forget to mark your calen-
dars for these events.
You’ll be glad you did!
The very essence of
leadership is [that] you have
a vision. It's got to be avision you articulate clearly
and forcefully on every
occasion. You can't blow an
uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh
February 18 7:00pmRev. Dr. Julian Davies, of The UniversityChurch of Toledo, will speak on “Living ina Disposable World: Consumerism,Environmentalism and Social Justice,”addressing concerns about our westernconsumer culture and its effects on theplanet, as well as putting forward practicalideas for changing course.
March 17 7:00pmRev. Dan Rogers, President and CEO of Cherry Street Mission Ministries, will speakon the current state of homelessness in theToledo area. He will also address thesubject of current efforts to change thesystems that feed the problem, and producesolutions to the challenges presented bythis escalating problem.
April 23 7:00pmMs. Toby Hoover , Executive Director of The Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence,will speak on current efforts regarding guncontrol on the local and national scene. Her organization works to oppose the agendaof Ohio’s gun lobby, and to reduce therisk of gun-related violence in our state.
May 5 7:00pmMs. Chris Palmerton, Executive Director of Women Blessing Women in Toledo, will doa presentation of the work of WBW inempowering women for life, through educa-tion, job training, and more.
June 3 7:00pmRev. Dee Baker , Director of ToledoCampus Ministries at The University of Toledo, will present a workshop on “Art andSpirituality.” Rev. Baker is a Master Potter and serves as pastor to the ecumenicalMinistries on U-T’s campus. Come expect-ing a refreshing and creative experience.
July 14 7:00pmMs. Mary Schmidbauer , Executive Director of Second Chance, with Toledo AreaMinistries, will do a presentation on the workof her organization with women who have a
history in the sex trafficking industry, to helpbring about a return to mainstream life.
August 12 7:pmMr. Dennis Doblinger , a former business
owner in Toledo and current near-homelessman, will speak on life on the margins inToledo, including finding food, gettinggovernment and medical assistance, landseizure, and more.
2009 Justice Talks @ the SLC
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10 Month Process: Servant Leadership - Threshold To A Life Transformed
has gone to his or her grave with it still
unexpressed in the world, and the
world is impoverished all the more
because of it.
We like to know what’s coming
down the pike, and we even think weshould have some say in it. I guess in
some ways that’s good, but too often
the lack of knowing makes us too will-
ing to abdicate our places or calling as
difference-makers in the world, and we
settle for wishful thinking in place of
meaningful action.
Martin Luther King was
right...there’s no reason we have to
see, know or control our own future
eventualities, but we do need to
take first steps. Steps that proclaim
who we are and what we care about
and where we know we must go.
That’s what Servant Leadership:
Threshold to a Life Transformed helps
people to do. Go ahead...take the first
step. Your fear will lose out with every
step you take.
Many of those reading have been
through the SLC 10 month process,
and understand its call to transforma-
tive action in our communities. Those
who have not have probably at
least seen its effects on friends or
acquaintances, or have been ex-
posed to it in some way.
Regardless which category
one falls into, we all face a similar
challenge when we contemplate
dramatic new action or initiatives: fear.
Whether that fear is of failure or justthe unknown, it can have a debilitating
effect. More than one person with a
great solution to a compelling problem
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You don't have to seethe whole staircase, justtake the first step.
Martin Luther King
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