The Disabled Congregant: Issues of Mercy & Justice for Church Leaders
~a workshop at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California~

The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion will hold a workshop titled: The DisAbled Congregant: Issues of Mercy and Justice for Church Leaders. The workshop, open to all students at Pacific School of Religion and the surrounding community in the San Francisco Bay Area of California will be on campus on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 3:00 to 5:00 PM, The Seely G. Mudd Building, Room 100.

PSR seminary’s address:
1798 Le Scenic Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709-1323
(north of the UC Berkeley campus)

Description of workshop:
This is a two-hour workshop. Presenters: DASU members who are Pacific School of Religion seminarians. This Contextual Education program has approved this workshop for PSR students needing to witness Contextual Education events as a requirement for academic programs such as the Masters of Divinity degree.

DASU members will speak of the Christian spiritual calling to minister to the disabled. They will further speak of the California state and Federal civil rights laws for people who have been medically and legally declared to be physically and/or mentally disabled.

Several DASU students will tell their own stories of physical disabilities that are from accidents, genetic conditions and diseases as well as mental disabilities, often called “hidden disabilities.”

DASU Mission Statement:
The DisAbled Student Union at Pacific School of Religion exists to educate, advocate for and support all God’s people concerning issues of disability.

DASU website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PSRDASU/

Contact information:
Contact tJohn A. Lowell at jxlowell@covad.net or phone 415-533-7857.

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