What's Happening

• Mission Focused,Faith-Based Development:Continuing the Dialogue
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  Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
  Time: 8:00am-3:00pm
  Location: The Interchurch Center
                    475 Riverside Drive
                    New York, NY 10115
  * This is a Free Event
  ** This is also an opportunity for student to receive course credit. Click here to learn more.

EOL Upcoming Events:

Over fall 2007, EOL focused on structuring and refining its research procedures and made concrete plans for focus groups, forums and seminars for spring 2008. EOL anticipates continuing to focus on the themes that are strongly relevant to congregational ministry: housing, youth services and services for the most needy. We plan to host:

• Febraury 2008: A Harlem Focus Group on Gentrification and Affordable Housing.

• March 2008: A Brooklyn Focus Group on Gentrification and Churches in Williamsburg.

• March2008: A community forum that investigates mental health issues in the African American Community to be held at Unity Baptist Tabernacle, Mount Vernon, NY.

• April 2008: A focus group in Flushing, Queens on Interethnic relations among African American, Chinese, Korean and Indian communities.

• May 2008: EOL’s 3rd Annual Faith Based Housing and Economic Development Forum

• June 2008: Faculty Development Institute: When Urban is Global - Making the City your Campus II. Academics please apply at http://www.ecologiesoflearning.org/fdi.html

*You will receive email updates about these events monthly.

At the Hindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, Queens, Alamelu Iyengar, second from left, leads an international group of seminary professors seeking to learn how congregations and cities affect one another.
NEW YORK TIMES   | July 2, 2007
Citywide:  For a Master Class on Global Worship, It's Destination Queens
By DAVID GONZALEZ

2007 Faculty Development Institute for Theological Educators.

              The Honorable Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President and Lowell Livezey, Director of EOL at "Religious Agency and the Global City" presentation for the Manhattan Borough President's Office.

Rabbi Lawrence Sebert from Town & Village Synagogue speaking at our recent Cultures of the Night community forum.

        Presentation by Research and Reaching Fellow, Moses Biney of “Strengthening the Ties that Bind -First Presbyterian Church’s Pan African Experiment”