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2008 General Assembly Poverty Focus

Working Together to End Poverty | Thursday, June 19, 8-9 a.m.
Memphis Cook Convention Center | Ballroom A

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ways Fellowship Baptists are addressing poverty. Share your ideas, discuss challenges and hear lessons learned. Join the conversation and planning as we explore ways of working more effectively to end poverty.

The event is free, although breakfast will not be served. Make sure you come having already eaten or with something to eat. At the event, those who wish to support poverty-focused work around the world will have the opportunity to give through the CBF Offering for Global Missions.

Please register to help in planning for this event. Your contact information, if provided, will be used to help create a network of those interested in addressing poverty. 

Poverty workshops
Learning more about Poverty (Thursday, 9-10:10 a.m.) with presenters:

• Arville and Shelia Earl, CBF field personnel serving in Skopje, Macedonia
• Jon Singletary, director of Center for Family and Community Ministries and associate professor of social work at Baylor University
• Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope and Together for Hope leadership team
• Jason Pittman, CBF field personnel serving at Touching Miami with Love

Join in for the Long Haul: Explore the Spirituality needed for a life in sevice with the Poor (Thursday, 9-10:10 a.m.) with presenters:

• Chad Hale, executive director of Georgia Avenue Community Ministries
• CBF field personnel
• Angel Pittman, CBF field personnel serving at Touching Miami with Love

Addressing Global Poverty - from Missions to Movement (Friday 1:30-2:40 p.m.) Fellowship Baptists already support the Millennium Development Goals through missions and giving.  This workshop will extend mission mindedness by demonstrating practical ways congregations can utilize their God-given gift of citizenship to help meet these goals.

Addressing Poverty with Together for Hope (Friday 1:30-2:40 p.m.) Royal Lane Baptist Church in Texas shares about thier experience in all five regions focused on by Together for Hope, CBF's rural poverty initiative.

The Great Cloud of Witnesses: Join in working toward change by supporting work around the world through the MDGs (Friday, 3:15-4:25 p.m.) with presenters:

• Colleen Burroughs, executive vice president and communications of Passport Inc.
• Bread for the World
• Youth from Kirkwood Baptist Church in Kirkwood, Mo.
• Ellen and Rick Burnette, CBF field personnel serving in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Connecting with Mexico and Border Ministries Opportunities (Friday, 3:15-4:25 p.m.) Come learn about ministry opportunities for short-term mission groups in marginalized communities along the United States/Mexico border