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* 04/17/2008

St. Peter, Harrodsburg - REVIVAL!
 

* 04/17/2008

KY Lay Awards Banquet
 

* 04/10/2008

13th District Qaudrienniel Celebration
 





* 04/10/2008

GENERAL CONFERENCE OBSERVERS REGISTRATION...
 

If you're not a delegate or alternate delgate to the General Conference, but plan to attend anyway (and you should!)... then contact one of our 13th District General Conference Observers Registration Chairpersons ASAP:

      
New! 01/30/2008

JOIN BISHOP BRYANT ON THE GOLF COURSE
 
* 01/30/2008

Kentucky Conference Lay Organization Happenings
 
The Kentucky Conference Lay Organization
Happenings

* 10/22/2007

BISHOP'S NEW BOOK!
 
* 04/24/2007

SCHOLARSHIPS!
"Scholarships going unnoticed by African-American Students"

Please pass this information on to family members and friends to get the word out that money is available. If you are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be. Below are several scholarship awards and websites: 
* 03/29/2006

SAVE DARFUR COALITION
A.M.E. CLERGYWOMAN LEADS NATIONAL EFFORT
TO END GENOCIDE IN DARFUR, SUDAN

National Rally Set for April 30th in Washington, DC

Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Boston, MA, was recently appointed to serve as the chairperson of the Million Voices for Darfur Campaign (www.savedarfur.org), a national effort to raise public awareness and to mobilize Americans to help end the genocide in western Sudan. Rev. White-Hammond, a pediatrician and noted human rights activist, is traveling throughout America "to sound the alarm" about an atrocity that threatens the lives of millions of people. Rev. White-Hammond stated: "I realized that I could either speak out and become an agent for justice or remain silent and be rendered irrelevant."

As many as 400,000 people have died in Sudan’s western Darfur region in a conflict the international community has done little to stop. The Million Voices Campaign (MVC) is collecting one million postcards encouraging President Bush in his call for a stronger multinational peacekeeping force to protect the civilians in Darfur. Rev. White-Hammond explains that the MVC is an unprecedented effort to end genocide in Sudan, the largest country in Africa. The campaign is being organized by the Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of over 150 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations.

"As a member of the clergy, I am calling on the faith community to stand with me against injustice. I am making a special appeal to the African Methodist Episcopal Church to lead its congregations in word and deed in ending the human suffering and ethnic cleansing," stated Rev. White-Hammond. She added: "I am firmly persuaded that God wants the African American community to be the ‘tipping point’ on the Sudan tragedy, which has been described by the United Nations as the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis. We are to do for African people what was not done for our ancestors 400 years ago."

You can Make A Difference

All A.M.E. members are encouraged to complete a Million Voices Postcard. Cards can be completed via the Internet by visiting the www.savedarfur.org website or actual postcards may be requested from the Save Darfur Coalition office (check website or call 202-478-6155). A strong African American presence is also needed at the April 30th Rally to Stop Genocide. The Rally will present survivors of genocide, prominent political figures, faith leaders, human rights activists, entertainers, journalists, and thousands more. Rev. White-Hammond also asks the African Methodist Episcopal faith community to join the Save Darfur Coalition’s Week of Prayer and Action on April 2-9, 2006. During this designated week, clergy are asked to lead their congregations in prayer for the people of Darfur, to deliver a sermon or hold a special service focusing on the humanitarian crisis, and/or have the postcard completed. The complete Faith Action Packet can be found on the www.savedarfur.org website.

Rev. White-Hammond, who has taken a temporary leave from her medical practice at Boston’s South End Community Health Center, became involved in the Sudan crisis in 2001 when she traveled to Southern Sudan to explore allegations of slavery condoned by the country’s government. Since then she has returned to Sudan seven times including a 2005 trip to Darfur, where she interviewed genocide survivors. "Of the sixty women with whom I met in Darfur camps, 40 percent reported being raped. In this conflict, rape has become a weapon of mass psycho-social, spiritual destruction," said the Million Voices for Darfur chairperson.

Rev. White-Hammond is the co-founder of a human rights initiative called "My Sister’s Keeper" (www.mskeeper.org) developed to help the women of Southern Sudan reclaim their communities. The initiative supports economic development projects for women and the construction of a school for girls. "Educating women and girls provides them the skills, information and self-confidence that they need to become better parents, workers and citizens. This is the fastest shortcut to a well-developed community," expressed Rev. White-Hammond.

SAVE DARFUR COALITION
2120 L Street, NW, Suite 600 - Washington, D.C. 20037
202-478-6195
www.savedarfur.org

CONTACT: Deborah Peaks Coleman
202-478-6195 or 410-428-9930
Deborah@savedarfur.org

* 03/29/2006

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