A Comprehensive Update on Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Efforts

Featuring:

Maj. Joseph Bernadel

U.S. Army Retired,

CEO, Toussaint L’Overture High School for the Arts & Social Justice in Boynton Beach,

Recently unanimously elected as the permanent representative of the Haitian Diaspora on the Interim Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (ICRH).

Sunday, October 17, 2-5 p.m.

United Methodist Church

of the Palm Beaches

900 Brandywine Road, West Palm Beach 33409

This latest in the monthly “Model Interfaith Dialogue & Unity” series is organized by New Africa of the Palm Beaches in consultation with area interfaith clergy members. Journey with us as we seek to learn about each other rather than define or convert each other, learn to be the first to love the other, and develop exemplary models for interaction and cooperation.

No admission fee; donations appreciated.

DIRECTIONS FROM I-95: Take Exit #71 west onto Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. Turn right at first corner then left at next (three-way stop sign). UMCPB is on left. For more information call 561-309-5476.

Jane Marcel, senior executive advisor for the Toussaint L'Overture High School for Arts and Social Justice in Boynton Beach, helped pack the Duncan Center on May 6. In many languages, modes and traditions, area spiritual leaders offered prayers for our community, our nation and the world. The program was sponsored by the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association.

The Rev. Waymon T. Dixon, co-president (along with the Rev. Kathleen Gannon) of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association, in which I participate, has posted on his Facebook page more photos from this year’s heart-warming National Day of Prayer Observance and reception May 6 at the Duncan Conference Center. Kudos to the Rev. Joanna Thompson Gabriel, Donna Brueggemann and the rest of the team for gathering Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Bahai’s and others for this special interfaith program. Above and below: I capture several more scenes.

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