Conversation with Scott Bessenecker on Thursday (4/28)

Living with and Learning from the Poor: Pizza & Conversation with Scott Bessenecker
Thursday, April 28th
6:00 PM (Pizza Provided) 
Dwight Hall Library (67 High Street)

Sponsored by: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and ECV

InterVarsity Christian fellowship and ECV has invited IVCF National Director of Global Projects and author Scott Bessenecker to lead a thought-provoking discussion over dinner at Yale’s Dwight Hall Library on Thursday, 4/28 at 6 PM.

Author of The New Friars, How to Inherit the Earth, and Living Mission, Scott has been witness to and participant in an emerging movement of mainly middle-class highly educated men and women who are seeking a shared life among the poor. After visiting intentional communities as diverse as Old Order Mennonites in Wisconsin, Jesus People in Chicago and those who have relocated to the slum communities of the developing world, he has learned a few things about how life together can be transformational – for those who embrace community as well as for the world around us. Scott has spent significant time in global urban centers, leading student teams who live with, partner with, serve, and learn from some of the poorest slum communities in the world.

Come join us for dinner and conversation - format is casual and dialogue-centered, so please contribute your own dreams, thoughts, and experiences.

ECV Holiday Donation Opportunity to Refugees!

What: Donations for Refugees being assisted by IRIS
When: Sunday 12/13 & Sunday 12/20
Items to Donate: See List Below

This Christmas season we are going to collect items to give as gifts to one of ECV's partners, IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (www.irisct.org). IRIS welcomes and resettles refugees- people fleeing persecution- from all over the world, including Iraq, Congo, Cuba, Afghanistan, Sudan, and other countries. IRIS helps them get started in their new lives in the US by providing basic needs and services, and helps them acculturate. We'll be hearing a partner update about IRIS this coming Sunday (12/13).

IRIS collects donations from the community to outfit refugees with everything they need in their new homes. Imagine fleeing your home and arriving in a new country with only 2 suitcases, if that! Now imagine coming from a place like Baghdad or the Congo, where the weather is VERY different, and coming into New Haven on a snowy/slushy, COLD day like today!

Over the next 2 weeks, we are hoping to help refugees in New Haven by collecting:

• New thermal underwear for adults and kids, any size
• New socks for adults and kids (including trouser socks for women)
• Pots & pans (these can be used/from Goodwill as long as they're in good condition and are clean)
• Umbrellas

If you would like to contribute to the collection, please bring these items to church on Sunday 12/13 or Sunday 12/20.

(These donations are tax-deductible. If you would like a thank you letter and receipt from IRIS for your donation, please contact Kelly Hebrank at kelly (dot) hebrank (at) gmail (dot) com)

Thank you!