New Cohort Leaders and the Schedule!

What a great cohort gathering we had this Monday. The Latino Leadership Circle (LLC) showed up in force - David, Belinda and Luis represented.

We were able to make some nice progress on organizing and scheduling things. Under group pressure and in a show of great compassion for me, (Jeff) Bowie Snodgrass and David Ramos agreed to become co-facilitators with me of the Cohort! Yeah!

I can't wait to see how their energy and wisdom transform and enrich our gatherings and our ability to communicate better and do new things.

Next month on Monday, March 12th, the LLC headed up by David Ramos will guide the dialog.

Then in April on Monday, April 9th - the day after Easter when tired pastors just want to hang out and relax, we will hang out relax, talk about whatever and have some food. Chill.

For the May Cohort on Monday, May 14th, Elise will head up a collaboration with some of the other women members of the Cohort for an anticipated dialog on Women Emergent.

Belinda Passafaro brought to our attention some very important activity on the behalf of humans who have suffered greatly and need our help. A group called Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform has been launched and they and the LLC and others have made A Call for a New Sanctuary Movement. We've posted these documents online at Google docs and spreadsheets so you can read them , but here's the main idea:

"...As an act of public witness, religious or faith communities will publicly provide hospitality and protection to a limited number of immigrant families whose cases clearly reveal the contradictions and moral injustice of our current immigration system while working to support legislation that would change their situation..."

Look what cool things happen when the LLC shows up! How would we know to help these people if no one told us? This is the kind of generative frienship that the cohort hopes to enable.

Another thing we talked about is communication of events that might interest us. We recently had some great speakers come through town that none of us knew about until it was too late, and so we really encourage you to comment here on the blog about any interesting events, and from time to time we will include them in email annoucements. We'll try to find a balance between keeping everyone informed and not sending out to many emails.

Also don't forget to send in your info for the sidebar's of this blog to cohortnyc@gmail.com or just post in a comment.