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Empower Hampton Roads Presents the Third Annual Justice in Our
Time Banquet
Sunday, April 29, 2007, 5:30 P.M.
Murray Hall
455 E. Brambleton
Norfolk, VA 23510
Donation $35.00
Keynote Address
Reverend Dennis Jacobsen
The Rev. Dr. Dennis
Jacobsen is the pastor of Incarnation Lutheran Church (ELCA)
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and serves as the Director of the
Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus, which represents the 1,500
plus clergy of the Gamaliel Foundation affiliates across the
country. In that capacity, Jacobsen travels nationally as a
presenter and resource person on congregation-based
organizing. He is a founding pastor and leader in MICAH
(Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope).
Jacobsen has chaired the Congregation-Based Organizing Team
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which has
conducted three national summits on faith-based organizing
for several hundred ELCA church leaders, pastors,
seminarians, and laity and which has provided practical and
theological training events in each of the eight ELCA
seminaries. His Doctor of Ministry studies at New York
Theological Seminary focused on church-based organizing. He
has served on the faculty of S.C.U.P.E. (Seminary Consortium
for Urban Pastoral Education). Jacobsen was honored by
Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago as the 2007
Distinguished Alumnus for Peace and Justice. Pastor Jacobsen
is the author of Doing Justice: congregations and
community organizing (Fortress Press, 2001) and is
currently working on a second book connecting spirituality
to congregation-based organizing.
Empower Hampton Roads
P.O. Box 14063, Norfolk Virginia, and
Website:
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