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Reminder: RSVP's needed re Tibbels Event

[via email from the Sagamore Institute -- formerly Hudson Institute. Because of security, RSVP's are required by April 1st for the breakfast event.]

The Sagamore Institute for Policy Research cordially invites you to a Breakfast Briefing oncommunity redevelopment and revitalization featuring Allan and Susan Tibbels, New Song Urban Ministries.

Allan and Susan Tibbels are founders of New Song Urban Ministries, a community-based “ministry of ministries” that takes a multi-dimensional, holistic approach to neighborhood development. Since1988, New Song has focused its revitalization efforts on Sandtown-Winchester in West Baltimore, Maryland, where the Tibbels have brought together a vast array of programs and opportunities that notonly revitalize neighborhoods, but also empower those who live in Sandtown.Thanks to hard work and creative leadership, New Song is partneringwith foundations, churches, corporations, colleges, civic groups, theCity of Baltimore, and the State of Maryland. Among the programs thatoperate under the New Song umbrella are a Habitat for Humanity branch, placement center, an arts program, the New Song Family Health ServicesCenter, and the New Song Community Church (planted by the Tibbels).The New Song team has built or rebuilt one-third of the houses in Sandtown, trained and placed hundreds of workers, and transformed the Sandtown environment into a place of hope. But Sandtown is more than just a ministry for the Tibbels—it’s also their home. New Song Urban Ministries has been honored by the Anne E. Casey Foundation and featured in national publications such as U.S. News & World Report, TheBaltimore Sun, and Habitat World.

To find out more about New Song,visit www.nsum.org.We hope you will join us on April 5 to hear more about Sandtown andwhat Indianapolis can learn from New Song’s community developmentsuccess story.

Please RSVP to: events@sipr.org by April 1 (acceptances only).Call Pat Hasselblad at 317-472-2050 (ext. 303) with any questions.8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.April 5, 2005 Kite Conference Center30 South Meridian StreetIndianapolis, Indiana

SIPR’s Breakfast Briefings seek to inform civic, community, business,and government leaders about innovative programs and the people behindthem—in Indiana, across the country, and around the world."

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The Tibbels will also be our guest speaker at the Transform Indiana lunchtime meeting at the Unleavened Bread Cafe -- No RSVP needed for that meeting.

posted by IndyChristian @ 6:55 PM