Social Justice Program at Ogden Memorial Presbyerian Church

The Christian Education Committee of Ogden Memorial Presbyterian Church, Chatham, NJ, will be hosting the third of a three-part program on issues calling for social justice, which will focus on an area of concern in our country and will seek to help us understand how we can address the concern nationally as well as locally.   The intent of these programs may be summarized in these words of William Sloane Coffin:  “Charity seeks to alleviate the effects of injustice; justice seeks to eliminate the causes of it”. 

  This event is free; however donations to the program will be gladly accepted.  For more information, you can contact Anna Tivade at 973-635-2218, or via e-mail at annativade@yahoo.com; you can also contact the church office at 973-635-5567.
We encourage everyone to come learn more about these important social justice issues, and how you can become a part of the change. 

Ogden Memorial Presbyterian Church, 286 Main Street, Chatham, NJ,
Sunday, March 25, 6:30PM:  IMMIGRATION; Sally Pillay, Coordinator of the Intern Program, IRATE & First Friends, Elizabeth, NJ In 1997, a collaboration of Jesuit Refugee services and the Archdiocese of Newark to provide English language and Bible study to detainees at the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC) was the beginnings of what became IRATE & First Friends.  Today, IRATE & First Friends visits non-criminal detainees at the Elizabeth Detention Center, in the Hudson County Corrections Center, and the Bergen County jail; provides training for those willing to visit detainees; speaks to groups on detention or immigration reform; collaborates with partner organizations seeking humane treatment of all detainees, and the end of detainment for asylum seekers; works nationally on behalf of comprehensive immigration reform; organizes demonstrations to keep the plight of detainees in the news, and works to end to anti-immigrant law, prejudice, and racism. www.irate-firstfriends.org