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Archive Project
ORGANIZATION: JESUS THE LIBERATOR SEMINARY OF RELIGIOUS JUSTICE
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Hello,
We are a small nonprofit organization operating out of an office in the basement of an Episcopal Church. Through correspondence, we connect with incarcerated persons to share information and inspiration. Our organization has published two books and we are currently working on our third publication. We have recently received a grant to organize and archive the documents which have been accumulated over the years. Our volunteer team will meet once a week on Fridays from 3-5:30pm to create lists of all of the documents in our files as part of an effort to create an online and in-person archive. We also want to contact and reconnect with incarcerated persons who have participated in our programs in the past. Do you have a few hours a week to help us with this project?
Snacks will be provided.
Thank you!
G. Atchison
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About JESUS THE LIBERATOR SEMINARY OF RELIGIOUS JUSTICE
Location:
51 COLONIAL CIR, BUFFALO, NY 14222, US
Mission Statement
Jesus the Liberator Seminary is a faith-based, nonprofit organization located in Buffalo, NY. Our main emphasis is to form relationships with incarcerated people through nationwide correspondence. We work to provide spiritual development and religious instruction and to create an educational community by connecting college professors, theologians, clergy, activists and incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people.
Description
Jesus the Liberator Seminary was founded by the Rev. Hugh Pratt and was established as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 1995. We heal and empower through spiritual guidance and facilitated education. We value humility, mercy, intelligence, wisdom born from experience and love which serves others. We come from a Christian tradition which values and respects all traditions. Originally Jesus the Liberator Seminary provided formal theological courses in prisons and within the community and offered a personalized course of study through correspondence. Members and friends of the organization also published two books: Prison Theology (2013) and Dreamers, Romans and Prisons: Meditation on Crime, Illness, Healing and Liberation. Rev. Douglas Gilbert was a long time chair of the board and bequeathed a large theological library. Original publications from the organization and the donated books have been distributed to incarcerated people, prison chaplains and other nonprofit organizations in an effort to build community and to foster the evolution of the ideas. We are currently working on a third publication, There is More to This Confession: Relational/Prison Theology (2019).The Reifler Enablement Fund of the Network of Religious Communities has provided some of the funds for Jesus the Liberator and personal donations.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
51 Colonial CircleSt. John's-Grace ChurchBuffalo, NY 14222
DATE POSTED
January 10, 2019
SKILLS
- Administrative Support
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 2.5 hours per week
- A good sense of humor, patience