JONAH - Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope

We visit with 3 congregationally-based organizers about JONAH (Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope), MICAH (Milwaukee Interfaith Congregations Allied for Hope) and WISDOM. Jonah is a new Chippewa Valley effort to link congregations working together progressively for the good of all.

Our guests are Joe Ellwanger, a retired Lutheran minister, David Liners, a former Catholic priest and with Paul Oppedahl, a local Lutheran minister, about progressive organizing through churches and other congregations in the Chippewa Valley. You can contact Paul at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd at 715-834-2959, and WISDOM via e-mail or by calling 414-831-2070.

Music Featured:
Heaven's Here On Earth - Tracy Chapman
Lift Every Voice & Sing - Women of the Calabash

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SIA-000058

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JONAH - Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope

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"We challenge people to be courageous and to be prophetic"
The MICAH group from inner-city Milwaukee goes out to Glendale to clean up a bad area. "If we don't nip this prostitution and drug-dealing in the bud, here in the Glendale, it's going to spill over into the central city!"
"We all wish there was a short cut - you know - we could right a really good article and everybody'd read it and they'd do the right thing, but, in fact, organizing is really about building those relationships and then, one at a time, building a network of people who can commit themselves to one another and commit themselves to something better.
MICAH, in Milwaukee, has had a practice of going to each area, for the past 15 years, where a homicide, and praying, witnessing and listening to the pain and hopes of the community. This has led to a powerful journey around what to do about crime. It's led from concern about closing down drug houses, to community-wide efforts to deal with drugs, to options for treatment, to TIP - Treatment Instead of Prison.

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Joe Ellwanger
David Liners
Paul Oppedahl

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