Moving Forward Together: Honoring our Allies in the Work for Transgender Equality
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location: The National Press Club
Please join us for our annual reception and celebration of our allies in the movement for transgender equality. We'll recognize the gains we have made, the partners who have helped us to make them and the work that is ahead. It's a fun-filled occasion with plenty of time to mingle and enjoy hors d’oeuvres (including vegetarian and vegan options) and a cash bar. You may also purchase tickets at the door.
Please join us for this very special reception during NCTE's annual Lobby Days as we recognize the gains we have made, the partners who have helped us to make them and the work that is ahead. There will be hors d'oeuvres (including vegetarian and vegan options) and a cash bar at the reception.
Tickets are on a sliding scale of $50, $35 and $20 for limited income; Sponsorships are $100. Thank you for your support.
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Sponsorship, $100, includes ticket and listing in program book |
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Scholarship so others may attend who would not otherwise be able to, any amount |
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Award Recipient: Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder
Bishop Yvette Flunder founded the City of Refuge UCC in 1991 in order to unite a gospel ministry with a social ministry. City of Refuge is a thriving inner-city congregation that celebrates the radically inclusive love of Jesus Christ. Preaching a message of action, the church has experienced steady numerical and spiritual growth and is now located in the south of Market area of San Francisco at 1025 Howard Street.
Bishop Flunder is an ordained Minister of the United Church of Christ and a graduate of the Ministry Studies and Master of Arts programs at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. She received a Doctor of Ministry degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo California.
In June 2003 Bishop Flunder was consecrated Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship a multi-denominational fellowship of 110 primarily African American Christian leaders and laity representing 56 churches and faith-based organizations from all parts of the United States Mexico and Africa.
Responding to the needs of the AIDS epidemic, Bishop Flunder and her staff opened Hazard-Ashley House and Walker House in Oakland and Restoration House in San Francisco through the Ark of Refuge, Inc., a non-profit agency which provides housing, direct services, education and training for persons affected by HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area, throughout the USA and in three countries in Africa. Restoration House is a dual-diagnosis residential facility for African-American women and the first of its kind in San Francisco. Walker House serves persons in recovery and living with HIV in Oakland, CA. The Ark provides HIV/AIDS education and prevention services targeting the African American and African faith community. The Ark opened, in collaboration with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the Magic Johnson Clinic to provide primary medical care services. The Ark has also provided substance abuse intervention programs, transitional housing for homeless youth, mentorship programs and a computer lab and audio/video training for community youth.
Bishop Flunder is much sought after as a preacher, educator, conference speaker and singer. She has been invited to minister and serve throughout the nation and many points abroad. She is the author of “Where the Edge Gathers: A Theology and Homiletic of Radical Inclusion” Pilgrim Press.
