From e-mail:
Maybe you’ve seen her on TV.
She’s a 22-year-old evangelical Christian and a volunteer with No More Deaths, an organization that searches the Arizona desert rescuing immigrants overcome by heat and exhaustion.
Her name is Maryada Vallet, and she’s making a difference. She’s made the national news recently, talking to reporters and meeting with politicians. She tells them about the desperate border-crossers she’s met. She speaks of separated families and overwhelming poverty.
And when they ask why she does it, she speaks of her faith. She reminds them about Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan.
Maryada is exactly the kind of young, emerging leader that our movement needs. Which is why, last year, Call to Renewal awarded her an Emerging Leader Scholarship to our annual Pentecost Conference on overcoming poverty.
This year, we want to offer scholarships to more young leaders like Maryada. But we need your help to do it.
We hope to strengthen our Emerging Leaders program for Pentecost 2006: Building a Covenant for a New America, June 26-28, here in Washington, D.C. More than 180 Emerging Leaders have already committed to being a part of this year’s Pentecost gathering. We want to be able to provide this opportunity to many more!
You can build the program by giving online through our secure donation page.
Across the country, young people are following Jesus’ call to give of themselves for others. At the Pentecost conference, we’ll help emerging leaders like Maryada learn new skills for faith-based advocacy to overcome poverty.
Help us raise the next generation of progressive Christian leaders. Make a gift today to the Pentecost 2006 Emerging Leaders program
Blessings,
Jim Wallis
Executive Director, Sojourners
Convener, Call to Renewal
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The mission of Sojourners is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.
