Get Out Your Calendar: Events in 2012
Peaceful Living is as busy as ever, already thinking far into the next year to do our best to bring valuable, meaningful information and thought-provoking discourse to our community. 2012 is going to be a big year for us and we desperately want to share that with everyone that can attend. All of our events will be focusing on Peaceful Living’s goal of creating belonging, but with wonderfully varying and unique perspectives on how we can make everyone belong. One group of people we will be focusing on at our spring 2012 mini-conference is returning veterans. For our 3rd bi-annual conference in the fall of 2012, we’re ecstatic to incorporate you in our discussion about flourishing, and how to reach divine potential.
Without further ado, here are a few details about each of these wonderful upcoming events.
Sowing Hope: Hearing, Respecting and Supporting Our Veterans
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Place: Peter Becker Community
Address: 815 Maplewood Dr., Harleysville, PA 19438
Our keynote speaker will be Ann Marie Donahue, Ph.D. She is the founder and faculty advisor of the Student Veterans Organization at Montgomery County Community College, and contributing member of the 2007 Brain Injury Consensus Conference convened to provide recommendations for treatment and care for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with traumatic brain injury, Ann Marie has become a champion for veterans returning home from war zones and helping them reacclimate to their communities. Her presentations include “From War Zone to College Campus: An Invisible and Emerging Population” and “Veterans and Homecoming: Issues in Transition and Community Response.” Ann Marie’s discussion will focus on welcoming veterans into, or back into, your faith community when they return from duty.
Flourishing – Reaching Divine Potential in Whole Community
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012
Place: Souderton Mennonite Church
Address: 105 West Chestnut Street, Souderton, PA 18964
The Cover of Same Lake, Different Boat, available on Amazon and at other retailers.
We are thrilled to be able to bring you a wonderful local author Stephanie Hubach, who wrote Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability, as our keynote speaker. Stephanie O. Hubach directs Mission to North America’s Special Needs Ministries. Mission to North America (MNA) is an agency of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). She currently serves on the Lancaster Christian Council on Disability (LCCD) and the Faith Community Leadership Advisory Board. Previously, she chaired the Lancaster County MH/MR Advisory Board. As previously mentioned, Stephanie is the author of Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability (P&R Publishing, September 2006) and has also written All Things Possible: Calling Your Church Leadership to Disability Ministry (Joni and Friends, August 2007). She has been published in ByFaith magazine, Focus on the Family magazine, and Breakpoint online magazine. Stephanie and her husband Fred have been married for 27 years and live in Pennsylvania. They have two deeply loved sons, Fred and Tim, the younger of whom has Down Syndrome.
A Quick Note: We will be applying for nursing contact hours, and we anticipate the availability of CEC’s for Social Workers at both conferences.
We have a couple of great ways to keep you in the loop, so please get involved in any and all of them! You can:
- Visit us on Facebook.
- Join our mailing list by calling Bethany Rogers at 610.287.1200, or emailing her.
Please Spread The Word!
If you would like to, we encourage you to spread the word about these events! You may download the save-the-date flyer to print out and spread around, and talk about them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and anywhere else you you can think of. Thanks!
Though X Mas is over, year end holidays on us, the best for all of you. My regards to Rev.Joe Landis and team. Keep meposted about the forthcoming events.
Hari Om,
Akkaraju Sarma