Archive for July, 2007

Adopt-a-School: An Idea whose Time has Come
Jeremy Del Rio @ UYWI 2007

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+ AUDIO: Adopt-a-School: An Idea whose Time has Come – NEW from UYWI 2007
+ BOOK: Playbook: A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities
+ POWERPOINT: Adopt a School: An Idea Whose Time Has Come – NEW from UYWI 2007
+ BLOGPOSTS: Blog posts tagged with Adopt-a-School.
+ TIMELINE: [...]

A dream come true

Last Friday and Saturday, an entire neighborhood witnessed answered prayers with their own eyes as the guy who organized this as a tribute to old-school hip hop,

coordinated this as a tribute to new school opportunity:

Eleven years ago, thirteen young people ages 14-22 overcame the lack of money, space, equipment, and paid staff to establish [...]

Kara Powell and Chap Clark invited Jeremy Del Rio to contribute two chapters on economic justice to their upcoming book, Deep Justice in a Broken World. Jeremy previews his chapters in the recent “Jesus Justice” article, and his son Judah contributed to the book’s subtitle! GospelCom says of the article:
We hear a lot about [...]

Returning to Christian Cultural Center
RELOAD NYC07
September 29, 2007
featuring:
- local and national speakers
- multi-cultural worship and Hip-Hop
- expert training for next-generation urban leaders
- breakfast and lunch included
- all [...]

Coalition co-founder and original co-chair, a/k/a “Happy Daddy” Dimas Salaberrios, is this month’s cover boy for Outreach magazine. Even more wonderful for the emerging leaders Dimas has ably represented for the last decade, the article speaks of him as both a protege and peer of one of the great pastors/theologians/urbanists of our time, Dr. Tim [...]

Congratulations to the incoming Coalition leaders, ratified by unanimous approval of all present at today’s meeting:

Kevin Young, Student Venture (returning)
Walter Sotelo, Citivision (returning)
Liana Robinson, Beauty of the Heart (returning)
Edwin Pacheco, Bay Ridge Christian Center and Youth Rock (new)
Peter Ong, Pastoral and Laity Ministries (new)
Nicole Baker, Boro Pregnancy Counseling Center (new)
Debbie Say, Student Venture (new)

Officially, their term [...]

Friends,
This is an FYI about an opportunity for high school upper classmen you know to influence public policy in the city.  One of my teens participated two years ago and was given the opportunity to present with his colleagues recommendations on school safety to schools Chancelor Klein and an NYPD deputy commissioner.
Jeremy
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