Thank you SO MUCH for attending our 50th-anniversary celebration last week! And thank you even more for the comments you shared with us during the "Call to Action" and for your willingness to invest in other people by giving us your names and contact info.
Here are the *next steps* we're working on:
We have sifted through your comments and are currently developing a brief survey that we will email out to you in the next couple of days. Using this tool, we plan to further define our particular areas of passion and enthusiasm.
We have sifted through your comments and are currently developing a brief survey that we will email out to you in the next couple of days. Using this tool, we plan to further define our particular areas of passion and enthusiasm.
So far the major areas of interest include
- issues related to sex trafficking (awareness, intervention, prevention);
- expanding the capacity of the homeless shelter;
- mentoring for children/youth;
- and job training/job creation for those coming out of the recovery community, out of a trafficking situation, and those with criminal records
After we have finished listening and discerning where our energies are focused, we will schedule the first Community Conversation.
And YOU will be the first to be invited to that conversation, though others who are interested may attend as well. If you have a friend who missed the event but wants to be part of the new things God is doing among us, invite them.
I am greatly looking forward to seeing what sorts of new things God is doing through us and among us!
Be of good courage & know that you are loved,
Allison
Rev. Allison T. Bauer
President, Scioto Christian Ministry Board of Directors
Pastor, Second Presbyterian Church (Portsmouth, OH)
revatbauer@yahoo.com
PS For those who incorporate a time of daily prayer in your lives, the following is a link to a series of prayers related to human trafficking ("the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act"):