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1. Faith & Hunger Summit: April 11

2. Easter Dawn Service
3. Advocacy Spotlight:
EAD: Ecumenical Advocacy Days
Dr. Zucker visits the Winter Breakfast Program
New Advocacy CoordinatorMeet Joe
4. Lenten Reflections from FOCUS

1. Faith & Hunger Network of NYS

2. Easter Dawn Service

Wake up early and join us at the FOCUS Easter Dawn Resurrection

Service on Easter morning, April 5 at 6:30 am at the West Capitol Park.
The Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, Associate Regional Minister for the American Baptist
Churches of NYS will share Easter reflections.
A Community Breakfast follows at Emmanuel Baptist Church at 7:05 a.m.

3. Advocacy Spotlight

ECUMENICAL ADVOCACY DAYS

Join FOCUS at the Ecumenical Advocacy Days
April 17-20 in Washington D.C.

FOCUS is offering scholarships!

This years conference with over 40 planned workshops will feature:
Breaking the Chains: Mass Incarceration and Systems of Exploitation
Click to view 2015 Workshops
Click to register for the Conference
Contact Joe (joep@focuschurches.net) for more information

This week the Winter Breakfast welcomed the NYS Department

of Health Acting Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker.

Tuesday Breakfast Cooks Jack Armitage (left) and

Peter Broderick (right) with Dr. Zucker (center)

FOCUS Executive Council Member

Peggy Becker, Dr. Zucker,
Westminster Presbyterian member
Monica Mahaffey and FOCUS
Advocacy Coordinator Joe Paparone.

New Advocacy CoordinatorMeet Joe

FOCUS welcomes Joe Paparone.
Joe has taken up the role of the
FOCUS Advocacy Coordinator. He
will be facilitating the Hungry for
Justice and FOCUS Advocate
groups as well as working within
our congregations to strengthen
our mission as people of justice.
Joe lives in Albany with his wife
Lesley and their dogs, Artax and
Nym. In his free time he enjoys
exploring the Adirondacks via
foot, bike or canoe, and playing
saxophone.

Joe can be reached at 443-0460 and at joep@focuschurches.net

4. Lenten Reflections from FOCUS

The FOCUS Lenten reflections
have been created by forty men
and women from the community
of partner congregations.
As Jesus went into the desert to
pray and fast for forty days, Lent
offers us a landscape that calls
us to look at our lives from a different perspective, to perceive
what is essential and what is unnecessary.

Click here to read the online

FOCUS Lenten Reflections.

FOCUS Churches of Albany

275 State St. Albany NY 12210
518.443.0460
www.focuschurches.net