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Pueblo Interfaith Group Goes Public, Choses Coordinator

PICA: The Pueblo Interfaith Community Alliance

Don Bruestle 

Event summary:

The clergy, educators, and citizens of Pueblo Interfaith Community Alliance solicit public involvement. Don Bruestle was asked to serve as Coordinator. See details. —2007-11-21

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Event location: First Presbyterian Church’s library.

Full details:

        Pueblo Faith-Based Community Organizing Initiative
                [ Talking Points for January 2007 meeting ]

WHO: In July 2006 a group of parents, educators, and members of the faith community began meeting around community issues related to the region of Pueblo, Colorado. Some issues that surfaced during these early meetings was the element of fear among many immigrant communities because of strict immigration laws, a lack of higher education opportunities for Latino students, inadequate healthcare services for many poor and working families, and the feeling that communication between local schools and parents is non-existent.

As our group continued to meet it became apparent that the underlying theme was the absence of a community organization that could give voice to the hopes and concerns of the larger community living in the Pueblo region. The group discussed creating, a community organization with the mission of engaging congregations in a process of community organizing. The focus being the development of local leadership capacities among low to moderate-income members that lead to powerful organizing efforts involving large numbers of people in the identification, research, and resolution of issues.
In the fall of 2006 we voted to invite the Metro Organizations for People (MOP) to assist us in initiating this process. Metro Organizations for People (MOP) was founded in 1981. MOP currently has 32 member churches, schools, and neighborhood & youth associations representing 50,000 persons in metro Denver. MOP is affiliated with the PICO National Network, a 35 year old national network - with community organizations operating in 150 cities in 16 different states.

WHAT: We would like to invite our clergy from our various denominations in the Pueblo region to work with us in developing a faith-based community organization that will work toward increasing the quality of life of our church members and surrounding community. We invite our clergy to attend our first clergy meeting to learn about faith-based community organizing that will be presented by MOP community organizers on Saturday, January 20, 2007 from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.

WHERE: With the help of MOP we would like to build a faith-based community organization that involves community organizing efforts in several congregations located in the Pueblo region. As more infrastructure and resources permit we would like to expand this work to include congregations outside the Pueblo region.

WHY: As people of faith we see many issues affecting the community of Pueblo. We believe a faith-based community organizing effort is one of the best ways to address the aforementioned issues at their core. It is necessary so that all residents of the Pueblo region can live a higher quality of life.

 

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