Upcoming Travel to Taizé Community

Working Itinerary

Saturday, June 9

  • Arrive in Paris by 3PM, check-in at hotel or airbnb with group
  • Group dinner at L’AOC in the Latin Quarter

Sunday, June 10—Sunday, June 17

  • June 10—travel by train from Paris to Mâcon-Loché TGV, bus to Taizé
  • Stay with the Taizé Community
  • June 17—travel by bus to Mâcon-Loché, train from Mâcon-Loché TGV to Paris

Sunday, June 17

  • Return to Paris, check-in at hotel or airbnb with group
  • Group dinner

Participants will be expected to read “A Community Called Taizé” by Jason Santos and attend a group dinner in the Spring of 2018 and in the Fall of 2019.

Estimated cost is $1000 plus airfare per person. We want to make this trip affordable for students interested in participating, both undergraduate students and graduate students. Email Len if interested. We will release an online reservation form at the beginning of 2018. There students will be invited to share a confidential and honest estimate of what they are able to contribute to the cost. We do ask $250 be turned in by February 6, 2018 as a deposit for the trip. The group will be capped at 10 students.

For more information about the Taizé Community, click here.

 

 

Working Together

do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God

I don't think this charge from Micah 6:8 can be accomplished alone. That is why as I reflect on the fall semester, I am grateful for the spontaneous opportunity to host a small gathering to learn about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Sri Lankan Fisher People's movement.

Rev. Noelle Damico serves alongside the Coalition of Immokalee workers to promote the Fair Food Program, and Herman Kumara is the convener of the Sri Lankan Fisher People's movement. They were in Princeton for meetings at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Noelle reached out to Princeton Presbyterians as a former seminary intern for the once Wesley-Westminster Foundation (now Princeton Presbyterians of the Westminster Foundation and the Wesley Foundation).

It was an honor to invite the leadership of the student group Progressive Christians at Princeton (PCAP) and the Erik Matson, the Wesley Foundation Chaplain, to join the conversation.

We learned so much about the resilience of people to work for the betterment of their communities. Especially the current organizing by women for women. This is a deeply held value of Princeton Presbyterians as we work to support the flourishing of people of all genders, particularly when it comes to women and LGBTQ+ persons in church leadership.

I encourage you to check out the informative links above and discover the empowering work that has earned Greg Asbed of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers a recent MacAurthur Genius Grant.

If you are looking for some small way to uphold the dignity of farm workers, consider participating in the Wendy's boycott until they join the many peer corporations in the Fair Food Program.

May we continue to give thanks for sustained and spontaneous partnerships in this season of gratitude.


—Len

Noelle, Len, and Herman following the meeting with PCAP leader and Wesley Foundation Chaplain.

Noelle, Len, and Herman following the meeting with PCAP leader and Wesley Foundation Chaplain.