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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JONAH - Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope
What do WISDOM (and JONAH) do?
"We challenge people to be courageous and to be prophetic"
Inner-city congregations helping the suburbs with crime
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!"
One-on-ones - the basic tool of organizing
"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.
The journey of being with victims and neighborhoods of homicide
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.
Joe Ellwanger
David Liners
Paul Oppedahl
JONAH
MICAH
Wisdom

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Joe Ellwanger
David Liners
Paul Oppedahl

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