Focus: Bringing Yourself to Those in Need.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

9:00 AM

Prairie Circle Unitarian Universalist Congregation (Byron Colby Barn)

1561 Jones Point Road, Grayslake, IL

Speaker: Stanley Campbell, Director, Rockford Urban Ministries.

About the service: we are told that 90% of "winning" is just "showing up." To win against poverty and violence, we must make ourselves present, which takes courage

Today’s speaker will give examples of what he has experienced in his home town of Rockford, and hope these experiences touch people in Grayslake and throughout Lake County.

About the speaker:
Sometimes called the only paid peace activist in Rockford, Illinois, Stanley Campbell was hired in 1985 as Director of Rockford Urban Ministries, an outreach of 23 congregations where he is paid to do what he loves: peace work. A member of Veterans for Peace and a long-time Rockford resident, he established a food pantry and in 1983, founded the Rockford Peace & Justice Action Committee. Since being hired by Rockford Urban Ministries, Mr. Campbell has started many non-profit organizations, including Promised Land Employment, Rockford Neighborhood Development, and Harm Reduction Outreach, a needle exchange and outreach to street sex providers.

For your children: childcare is available for ages up to 3 and children’s religious education for preschool through high school runs concurrently to the adult service. 
 


Our invitation to you to learn more about us:



•web site: www.prairiecircleuuc.org 


•e-mail: office@prairiecircleuuc.org 


•programs for children and adolescents: http://www.prairiecircleuuc.org/#!childrens-religious-education/c1fcv 


•postal mail: PO Box 858 -- Grayslake, IL 60030 


•telephone (church office): 847.604.1908