Our cohort got together yesterday for a potluck Christmas celebration at the American Bible Society. From left to right we have Maritza Oritz, David Ramos, Sandra Otero, Belinda Passafaro, Luis Alvarez, Orlando Crespo, Jose and Mayra Humphreys. Good times, great laughs. La musica de Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon with asaltos navidadeños, the pasteles, the …
Praise for Arlene Sanchez Walsh’s book, Latino Pentecostal Identity: Evangelical Faith, Self, and Society Submitted by David Ramos _______________________________________________________________ Arlene Sanchez Walsh "Sanchez Walsh constructs a trenchant history while maintaining rigorous analysis. Separating the rhetoric of easy accommodation from the history of Latino subordination and gender inequity within these churches, she challenges readers to understand …
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By David Ramos Belinda Passafaro and David Ramos of the Latino Leadership Circle participated today in a special policy meeting hosted by Sojourners in Washington, DC and sponsored by the Hagedorn Foundation. The meeting entitled, "Welcoming the Stranger: Developing a Faith-Based Agenda for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" featured a host of faith-based leaders, legislative directors and …
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by Efraim Espinoza The story of early Hispanic Pentecostals is dominated by two figures, Francisco Olazábal (1886-1937) and Henry C. Ball (1896-1989). Olazábal was converted in California at the turn of the century after receiving a tract from George Montgomery. George and his wife Carrie Judd Montgomery taught him basic Christian doctrines. Olazábal felt God’s …
Please keep me in your prayers as I will be traveling to India today for the next two weeks. I will be ministering at an international pastors conference as well as on the streets. David Ramos
On Wednesday, January 10th, the Latino Leadership Circle will be conducting the ACTS Urban Leadership Training Program. Sponsored by the American Bible Society this program provides cutting edge training for those involved on the frontlines of Urban Ministry. Sessions will be conducted by professionally trained and experienced ministers, social workers and marketplace leaders. Topics include, …
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November 27-29, 2006 Location: Miller TheatreColumbia University2960 Broadway(at 116th St.)New York, NY 10027Map For more information click on: http://www.awakenhumanity.org/ethos
CSNY FALL 2006 CONFERENCE ON URBAN MINISTRY: "THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION" The first City Seminary of New York Fall Conference on Urban Ministry will be held on Saturday, December 2, 2006 at New Song Community Church in Harlem. The concern of the conference, "the ministry of reconciliation," flows from our experience in the church and …
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Dear NYC Community Leaders: I am writing to invite you to a briefing for community organizations by the California-based Greenlining Institute at 350 Fifth Avenue, Room 2925, in Manhattan on Friday, November 17, 10:00am–11:00am. (We should note that the New York Foundation is generously providing the space for, but not sponsoring, this event.) In November …
By David Ramos This morning I had a dream, I dreamt I was in my old neighborhood. I was dressed in an expensive suit walking along one of its more impoverished avenues. In the dream I am an executive, and while I am walking, my mind is flooded with a myriad …