54 and So Much More to Do!
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By Lori Winblood
Lori and David at the Self-Development of People meeting in the Dominican Republic. Photo courtesy of SDOP.Editor’s Note:
Lake City Mountain Crafts Cooperative received a grant of $25,000 from the National Committee in 1992. The Synod of the Rocky Mountains SDOP Committee funded the group in 1993 for $10,000. Lori served on the Synod SDOP Committee from 2001 to 2006; she served on the National Committee from 2004 to 2006. She continues to speak in churches, meet with community groups and spread the work about SDOP in as many ways as possible. Lori is a gift to this ministry.
My growth from Self-Development of People (SDOP) has come and is still coming in so many ways and directions that I know it can only truly be from God. I look back at the beginning in 1999, when I was one of a group of people who had a dream.
We would help better our lives together by our own gifts of art and creativity. At this time our little town of Lake City, Colorado, was trying to market the community by establishing gambling for income. We were and are a group against legalizing gambling in our town.
God heard our call (I see that clearly now). At that time it was hard to see. We all decided to form an Arts and Crafts Co-op (Lake City Mountain Crafts Co-op). At the same time another handful of people decided to form The Arts Council. They had big money backers. [Read more]
Good News from Hudson River Presbytery
by the Rev. Chris Shelton
Youth Arts Group receiving $10,000 check.
Photo by Rev. Chris Shelton The Hudson River Presbytery chapter of SDOP was delighted to give our first grant in many years to the Youth Arts Group (YAG). Representatives from this group were even more delighted to accept a giant check for $10,000 at the September Presbytery meeting. This group of high school youth will use these funds to support their work with mentors in creating a radio program and a CD which carries their message of strength, determination and hope to other youth who are challenged by poverty and negative stereotypes. The Youth Arts Group was originally started by youth who had attended the summer camp of Rural and Migrant Ministries. An additional goal of YAG is to speak out in creative ways to improve the conditions of Migrant workers in the state of New York.
A look at the partnership with Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Self-Development of People (SDOP) in its 37-year history has partnered with more than 5,000 economically poor, oppressed and disadvantaged groups in the United States and internationally.
Leonel Perez, a CIW member, with Rev. Frank Corbishley, Chaplain of the Episcopal Church Center at the University of Miami.Recently I sat down to talk by phone with Gerardo Reyes Chavez from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a SDOP recently funded partner, and Jordan Buckley with Interfaith Action, a group that works in partnership with CIW to improve sub-poverty wages and end human rights abuses in the fields. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a 3,500-member, community-based workers' organization comprised largely of immigrants from Guatemala, Haiti and Mexico that work in low-wage jobs throughout Florida. Keep reading.
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