Coming Up

I had the flu last week, so I didn't get my blogging done. Sorry!

Coming up Saturday are the monthly conference calls. Domestic call at 11:30 a.m. will feature a speaker on the $8,500 minimum threshhold for the Child Tax Credit (I understand). The global call at 1 p.m. will feature the woman who started Jamii Bora, the microcredit institution in Kenya that lends to beggars. I will be there for both calls. Please join me if your schedule permits.

On the 15th, the third Monday, we'll be buttering bread in the Parish Hall (downstairs). An elevator is available. We'll also have an opportunity to talk with Leland about what he's learned from Basics online. With this final training session he will be an official card-carrying member of RESULTS! Welcome, Leland!!!!! I'll also have sign-up sheets for you so you can get people on board to buy herb bread.

The microcredit letter is ready now. I am going to call Congressman Loebsack's office on Tuesday to introduce the letter and ask him to sign it. I plan to use the story Dr. Muhammed Yunus told about the first thing a woman does with proceeds from her microcredit loan, which is not to feed her family better or send her children to school. No, the first thing she does is to buy her children back from forced labor. She had to sell her five-year-old son to a neighbor because she couldn't afford to feed him. But now, with microcredit backing, she can buy his freedom and bring him home.

On Monday of this week I am making follow-up calls to Pastor Offt of Trinity Lutheran, Fr. Pedasky of Immaculate Conception and Rabbi Sherman of Temple Judah to see about setting up informational meetings in their congregations. Please pray for these three men that they are receptive to the RESULTS opportunities for their communities.

Did you happen to see my picture on an op-ed last Sunday? The poverty numbers from the Census Bureau came in and the Gazette published our op-ed. You can read it on the RESULTS page of the Christ Church website -- www.christepiscopal.org/RESULTS.html.