FPWA CEO Jennifer Jones Austin moderates panel featuring Rev. Michael
Walron, Rev. Chloe Breyer and Rev. Dr. Herbert Daniel Daughtry Sr.
(New York, NY) Yesterday, the Federation of
Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA) held its second annual Faith &
Justice Clergy Breakfast at
the historic Riverside Church in Harlem. The breakfast
brought together participants of the FPWA Faith & Justice Fellowship
Program with more than 100 faith-based leaders from across the city to
discuss the role of prophetic witness and what faith
and justice looks like in the faith community.
The Faith & Justice Fellowship Program,
launched last year in collaboration with the New York Theological
Seminary (NYTS), aims to provides its participants with enhanced skills
that will enable them to be more effective advocates on behalf
of those most in need, and to help promote NYC as a place of equal
opportunity for all.
The fellowship program trains faith leaders to
become prophetic witnesses for fair social policies and equal justice.
Fellows participate in a series of theologically based courses, seminars
related to understanding civic engagement from
a theological and biblical perspective, and group retreats centering on
personal formation and reflection.
Speakers at this morning’s breakfast included Rev. Dr. Herbert Daniel Daughtry, Sr., Rev. Michael Walrond and Rev. Chloe Breyer.
Rev. Dr. Herbert Daniel Daughtry Sr. and FPWA CEO Jennifer Jones Austin together at the breakfast.
"I’m honored to be the
first recipient of the Faith & Justice Torchbearer Award from FPWA
and Ms. Jennifer Jones Austin,” said
Rev. Dr. Herbert Daniel Daughtry. “I consider Ms. Jones Austin’s
father to be an essential pillar in the faith and social justice
movement, and I am proud to have served the community for 58 years."
“Faith-based leaders have historically been at the
center of responding to human needs, both through direct service and by
raising their voices to challenge policies and change conditions,” said
Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO and Executive Director of FPWA. “The
Faith & Justice Program recognizes that and supports the need to
bring informed and focused voices of members of the faith community to
major social service issues at the city, state and
federal levels.”
Ten Fellows are part of the 2015-2016 cohort and they include:
Rev. Kim Anderson, Pastor, Metropolitan AME Church; Rev. Yolanda
Brown, Senior Pastor, Imani’s Quest Ministries; Rev. Phillip Craig,
Senior Pastor, Greater Springfield Community Church; Rev. Hector
Custodio, Pastor/CEO, Never Forsaken Re-entry Ministries;
Rev. Andrea Hargett, Pastor, St. Matthew’s Community AME Church of
Hollis; Rev. Lisa Jenkins, Senior Pastor, St. Matthew’s Baptist Church
of Harlem; Rev. Mark Kellar, Pastor, First Reformed Church of Jamaica;
Rev. Chris Lawrence, Pastor, Church of the Living
Hope; Ms. Nilza Oyola, Chief Operations Officer, Latino Pastoral Action
Center; Rev. Nigel Pearce, Senior Pastor, Grace Congregational Church
of Harlem.
Source: The Federation of
Protestant Welfare Agencies (FPWA)
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