This yr’s line-up begins with a series of ENGAGE topics once a month from February til May. We will then culminate the Spring series with our large worship event in June at a soon-to-be-determined venue. See you at ENGAGE and stay tuned!
February
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008.
7-9pm @Oversea Chinese Mission (OCM) church in Chinatown
154 Hester St. on the corner of Elizabeth St. (map here)
To RSVP, contact Peter Ong at peter[at]palmny[dot]org
Description:
Pastoral and Laity Ministries (PaLM) is excited to announce our Spring 2008 Season of ENGAGE Speaker Series to provide training and networking opportunities to lay leaders. This Spring, we will focus on a series of talks/conversations concerning how church leaders can think about social justice and community engagement. The series is held on the third Tuesday of every month at various venues throughout the city. We hope that it will serve your congregation leadership as a resource for some training and teaching. This Spring Speaker Series program is in partnership with OneHouse, an Asian American ministry that seeks to unify and mobilize the body of Jesus Christ through worship and intercessory prayer to bring social justice to global and local communities and to honor Christ’s love for the oppressed.
This month we will have the Executive Director of Restore NYC share about the issues facing our community in the area of sex trafficked workers. She will share some insight on this often neglected issue in the Asian American community and some thoughts on how to engage this community.
The trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing crime in the world, generating $28 billion dollars a year. NYC’s JFK airport is deemed by the Department of State to be a major port of entry and transit point for trafficking. The sex trade in Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs ranges from brothels, strip clubs, peep booth shows, massage parlors, street prostitution, escort services, bars, and private apartments. This presentation will provide an overview on the issue of sex trafficking from an international, as well as a local NYC-based level, providing specific and concrete ways for the Christian community to serve and fight this injustice in our communities.
Filed under: OneHouse '06
OneHouse ‘06 Unity.Worship.Social Justice
This year, unity finds its purpose.
On October 21, 2006, the second annual OneHouse concert of prayer was held at the Society for Ethical Culture Auditorium in New York City. People of all ages – working professionals, college students, and youth – gathered together to hear the message of unity, worship and social justice. OneHouse raised approximately $4000 in donations for World Vision and Bread & Water through the evening, and connected eager sponsors to an ongoing group of children from a World Vision village community in Mozambique. Bread & Water also presented their mission and current projects in the global community that are open to contribution and participation.
Through the presentations by Peter Ong, World Vision musical artist Neah Lee, and co-founder of Bread & Water’s Ying Chan, we were all able to better understand the important commission of upholding social justice in local and global communities. We were able to see that God cares for mercy and justice for the poor and marginalized of the world. The presentations helped to surface a necessary awareness movement of social justice in our Christian communities and spark an urgent call for action.
Neah Lee’s music and testimony helped us to perceive that this ‘action’ does not always require waiting for a huge social upheaval or changes of policy amongst the masses. Rather, ‘action’ starts with the individual – that we are all capable of making a difference for someone else less fortunate. Ying Chan stood as just one of the many who saw this urgency of God’s heart for the poor and acted by jump-starting Bread & Water’s mission to provide simple necessities of life to the countless people groups of the world. Peter Ong reinforced the call for Christians to ‘think outside of the box’, considering God’s heart for justice as one of utmost priority, and advising us in prudency as we grow in our faith as mission-minded Christians. Lastly, the attendees had a chance to respond through the act of musical worship and prayer.
As 2006 comes to a close, the OneHouse committee has again been humbled by what God has shown us this year. We live in a broken world. But we are not defeated, because we can overcome it. Together through Christ.
Thank you for all of you that participated in OneHouse 2006!!
We look to 2007 as exciting new doors open for the ministry. If you are interested in helping out for OneHouse 2007 through volunteering, leadership, or partnership, please contact onehousenyc@gmail.com for information.
OneHouse has made YouTube!
1. Worship Team – “His Love” by Hillsong
Filed under: OneHouse '06
ONEHOUSE Unity. Worship. Social Justice.
Oct. 21, 2006
5-8pm
NY Society for Ethical Culture
Main Auditorium
2 West 64th Street
@Central Park West
OneHouse is a movement that seeks to unify and mobilize the body of Jesus Christ through worship and intercessory prayer to bring social justice to global and local communities and to honor Christ’s love for the oppressed.
Last year, OneHouse brought together more than 300 Christians in New York City for a night of worship that only Jesus Christ could inspire. People, churches, and other Christian organizations –once strangers in a city of strangers — recognized their common ground in the Lord and took a step closer towards unity through praise and worship.
This year, unity finds its purpose.
Partner Organizations:
World Vision (Neah Lee)
Bread and Water
Church Sponsors:
Vision Church
