8/9/2019 FOCUS Alert - June 5
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FOCUS Churches of Albany275 State St. Albany NY 12210
518.443.0460
www.focuschurches.net
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2. GIAB– Dates and Locations
3. Summer Worship
1. Summer Appeal
5. Serving Albany
Donations
Both supplies and monetary contributions are needed to equip
children ade-
quately for the start of the school year. Contributions should
be marked
“School Supplies” and sent to FOCUS: 275 State Street, Albany
12210. Find
more information on the FOCUS website.
1. Summer Appeal
2. GIAB Dates Locations
3. Summer Worship
4. Advocacy Updates
5. Serving lbany
6. Food Pantry
7. School Supply Project
8. School Supply Project
FOCUS gardeners! ‘tis the season to plant your vegetables. How
about planting
an extra row with the intent of sharing your extra harvest of
fresh produce with
the Food Pantry?
7. Food Pantry
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Youth from FOCUS Churches are invited to participate in
Serving Albany. This is
a great opportunity to be serving our community. This summer,
Westminster
Presbyterian Church is hosting a Summer mission program where
middle school
and high school youth will spend 3 full days Serving Albany in
the South End. All
FOCUS youth are welcome to participate. After work each day, the
youth will
gather for games, worship and dinner together. Please contact
Pastor Frances
Rosenau ([email protected]) or click here to find out
more.
4. Advocacy Updates
June 2015—your donations make a diference
Gardening in a Bucket (GIAB) is happening and the vegetable
seedlings are
growing all around Albany family shelters, and schools. Children
learn about
growing and caring for vegetable plants while they decorate pots
and as-
semble a portable garden to take home with them. Thank you to
all the
volunteers who have signed up to assist staff.
We still need volunteers! If you can commit an hour or two for
the seedling
distribution for families who use the food pantry call Belinda
at 443-0460
or e-mail [email protected] (see dates
below)
FOCUS Summer Worship
July 5 @ 9:30 am
The first of the FOCUS Summer Worship Services will be at the
First Pres-
byterian Church corner of Willet and State streets (located by
Washington
Park). Street parking is available.
Click Here to Learn More About the Summer Appeal
Governor Cuomo has decided to use his authority to appoint a
special
wage board to examine the wages of fast-food workers, and then
propose
changes which can be enacted by the Governor, without the
legislature.
While this is an unusual step, it’s needed due to the deadlock
in the state
legislature over raising the minimum wage. The Governor’s op-ed
in the
NY Times makes the exact same arguments that advocates have
been
making for years. This is a big step forward, and a direct
result of the or-
ganizing and mass action by fast-food workers and other low-wage
work-
ers around the country and around the world. The fight isn’t
over, though.
Please take a moment and sign the petition from people of faith
to the
Wage Board.
This week anti-hunger advocates held a press conference outside
the
Senate Chambers at the NYS Capital to call for increased funding
to the
Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program (l-r: Natasha
Per-
nicka, Food Pantries for the Capital District; Rev. Debra
Jameson, FOCUS;
Susan Zimet, Hunger Action Network of NYS; representative from
Assem-
bly member Ortiz; Assembly member Crespo, Christine Hines, The
Peo-
ple's Place; Christy Robb, St. John's Bread and Life Center; and
Michael
Berg of Family of Woodstock)
Upcoming Moral Mondays - Faith leaders and people of conscience
will be
gathering again at the NYS Capitol to call for just and moral
policies on
issues including poverty and hunger relief, the call for a
living wage, crimi-
nal justice reform, and fair taxation.
Monday, June 8th, 3pm - outside Senate chambers on the 3rd floor
.
For more details e-mail Emily McNeill.
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