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1. Details...details...details...
2. Free Workshop
3. Pantry Thank You
4. Advocacy News
5. SEFA Donations Requested
6. Ecumenical Notes and Opportunities

1. Details...details...details...

What day am I signed up for? What am I suppose to do? Whats different?

New parking pass? New routines? Whats with hats? When do I need to
show up? How long do you need to stay? What is my role with guests?
We are still looking for new volunteers for the Winter Breakfast Program.
Are you interested and available? Positions that need filling: Half shifts
(89:30) available and substitutes are needed. Please call the FOCUS
office at 443.0460 or email Belinda at: belindaq@focuschurches.net

2. Free Workshop

3. Pantry Thank You

4. Advocacy News

On Sept. 27th and Oct. 4th, Emmanuel Baptist hosted two workshops on
poverty in Albany, the work of FOCUS, and the connections to broader
shifts in the national and global economy. On the 27th, Karen Kendall
and Becca Leet (both are Emmanuel members and on FOCUS staff)
shared details about the FOCUS anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs,
and Joe Paparone and Joanna Nadeau (Emmanuel) gave the context of
poverty across Albany County. On the 4th, we were joined by Janice Trainor and Jessica Dowsett from the Capital District Area Labor Federation,
who gave a presentation on Common-Sense Economics describing the
larger economic shifts in the past 40 years, what has caused those
shifts, and how were affected today. Joe connected the work of the FOCUS Advocates to statewide anti-poverty movements like the Fight for
$15. Were excited to begin sharing these workshops at the other FOCUS
churches soon!
Faith for a Fair NY will be holding their annual retreat
at the Dominican Spiritual Retreat House October
11th-13th. Well look at successful movements in
New York and across the country - including the
Fight for $15 and Moral Mondays - and look ahead
to what we can expect in the coming year. You can
register here. FOCUS scholarships are available.
Contact Joe Paparone for more information.
joep@focuschurches.net
Join the FOCUS Advocates! This
group will meet on October 20th, at
5:30pm at Emmanuel Baptist - to
begin planning for anti-hunger and
anti-poverty advocacy in the coming
year. Well discuss the issues, educate and organize our congregations,
and mobilize to work for justice. Food
will be provided! Let Joe Paparone
know if youll be attending:
joep@focuschurches.net
Action Needed!
Theres still time to take action on
Childhood Nutrition Re-Authorization!
These critical bills, currently being deliberated in Congress, would maintain
and expand access to healthy meals
for students over the summer. You
can sign a letter to Congress here:
http://bit.ly/1DqKx35

Rev. Deb Honored by HANNYS

At the annual Hunger Action Network of New York State membership
meeting Deb Jameson was recognized for her 10 years of service on the
Board of Directors and of her many valuable contributions in the struggle to end hunger and poverty in NYS. Her work has helped ease the suffering of so many.

5. SEFA Donations Requested

6. Ecumenical Notes and Opportunities

FOCUS Congratulates Christ Church
of Albany on their 2 year anniversary!
FOCUS has collaborated with Christ Church
on many wonderful projects around Albany.
Check out this cool video !

Nostra Aetate

Fifty years ago, on October 28, 1965, the Second Vatican Council issued the proclamation
Nostra Aetate, which articulated the Roman Catholic Churchs understanding of its relationship to other religions and its desire for closer interactions with them. The proclamation
ushered in a new era of interfaith dialog, understanding, and respect.
You are invited to a celebration of this historic event on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. at the
Howard Hubbard Interfaith Sanctuary, 959 Madison Avenue, on the St. Rose College campus.
The program will include presentations by six faith traditions: Bahi, Buddhism, Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. Presenters will talk about their faiths perspective on Nostra
Aetate, its impact on them in the decades since, and hopes for the future. A panel of young
people from the University at Albany will then comment on their views of interfaith relations today and their ideas of what the future may bring.

FOCUS Churches of Albany

275 State St. Albany NY 12210
518.443.0460
www.focuschurches.net