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• FW: Purple Purse Challenge: $40 for 40 Years of Shelter
• (Oct. 22) FW: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Bahá’í Faith
• (Oct. 28) FW: [DaytoniansAgainstWarNow] Demo and Forum
• (Oct. 29) FW: Invitation to the Interfaith Forum of Greater Dayton's October program
• (Oct. 31) FW: Volunteer Information - City of Dayton - Fall Harvest
• FW: Congratulations to our winning authors!

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From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: Purple Purse Challenge: $40 for 40 Years of Shelter

Help us raise $40,000 in honor of 40 years of shelter

Cash registers. Pop-top cans. Aviation. There’s a long list of innovations that got their start in Dayton, Ohio.

That includes groundbreaking ways to keep women, and their children, safe.

YWCA Dayton’s first domestic violence shelter, opened in July 1977, was one of the first 25 such shelters to open across the U.S. and the second opened by a YWCA. It remains the only emergency shelter for women fleeing abuse in Montgomery County.

Our shelter began with two rooms; in its first five years, it served more than 2,500 women. Today, we provide shelter and services in both Montgomery and Preble counties, serving upwards of 100 women and children at a time. Each year, in addition to housing and crisis hotline services, YWCA Dayton provides more than 12,000 hours of advocacy, counseling, and community referrals.

While much has changed in the past four decades, women’s need to seek safety has not. Domestic violence affects one in three women in her lifetime – that’s more women touched by violence than breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and lung cancer combined.

For 40 years, YWCA Dayton has stood beside women as they seek lives free from violence. We need YOU to stand with us to ensure this critical work continues. Your $40 gift to our Purple Purse Challenge, today, sustains shelter and support for domestic violence survivors of tomorrow.

Give Now

On behalf of the nearly half a million women and children YW has served since 1977 – and the families we continue serving, every day – thank you.

 

 

From: Colette Harrison
Subject: Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Bahá’í Faith

Please join members of the Montgomery County and surrounding Bahá’í Communities for this very special occasion!

OPEN HOUSE: Enjoy displays depicting the various aspects of Bahá’u’lláh’s life and teachings – and how these guide our commitment to service to humanity and the activities being undertaken in countless communities around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Zl-KMx45M&t=56s
The Báhá’í Faith: An Introduction – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK8sq4VyoZI

Sunday, October 22, 2017 ~ Delco Park Meeting Place
(behind the Kroger at Dorothy Lane & Woodman Ave)  
1707 Delco Park Dr, Kettering, OH 45420

~ Doors Open at 1:30pm ~ Program 2:00pm – 3:00pm ~
~ Displays, Fellowship, and Refreshments 3:00pm – 4:15pm ~
~ Closing 4:15pm – 4:30pm ~

Choral, Interpretive Dance, and other musical presentations by the Glory Singers, Youth Workshop, and Galen Smith, as well as a Special Overview Presentation. The program will be followed by meaningful discussions, fellowship, and light refreshments.

There will also be a special showing of a new film: “Light to the World” ~ Depicting the life and teachings of Bahá’u’lláh at this same location beginning at 5:00pm followed by dinner.

RSVP for the dinner requested by Saturday, October 21
unityindiversity_2015_Dayton@yahoo.com (937)232-8313 – Colette Harrison

The film and discussion (and refreshments) will be offered again the following
Sunday, October 29 (3:00 – 5:00pm) at the Interfaith Forum of Greater Dayton,
Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Rd, Kettering, 45429

“The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.” ~ Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p, 215.

Bahá’u’lláh, Founder of the Bahá’í Faith, came to unite humanity. Working in unison, sharing a collective vision and commitment to the betterment of society is at work in the Miami Valley and worldwide. ~ These principles are manifest through our desire to share our teachings, our history, and our ideals. ~

 

 

From: Daytonians Against War Now (DAWN) On Behalf Of Hilary Lerman
Subject: [DAWN] Demo and Forum

Dear friends of the Peace and Anti-War Movements,

Trump is pushing confrontations with Iran and North Korea.  Come show your opposition to these policies. DAWN! is sponsoring a demonstration Saturday, October 28 at 1pm at the corner of Stroop and Far Hills. Please come!!

DAWN! is also holding a Forum on Saturday, November 4 at the Downtown Library from 1-4pm. It will be at Room 1B. The title is 'Israel, Palestine and the Region: The Prospects for Peace'. John Wagner, Awad Halabi and Hilary Lerman will be the speakers and there will a period for Questions and Answers.

 

 

From: Katherine Cooper
Subject: (Oct. 29) Your personal Invitation to the Interfaith Forum of Greater Dayton's October program

Please share this announcement with congregants from your house of worship, friends, and neighbors.
    

• Program Date & Time: 29 October 2017; Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
• Location: Foster Hall at Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Road in Kettering.

You are warmly invited to attend the October 29 program featuring the Bi Centenary of the Birth of Baha’u’llah – the Prophet/Founder of the Baha’i Faith. Baha’is around the world are holding celebrations and doing service projects at this special time. A 50-minute film, “Light to the World” will introduce His life and teachings through accounts of diverse people across the globe.  Table discussions will be followed by a chance for questions.

As always, the Forum’s programs are free and open to the public. We invite you to bring something to share. Please do not include pork or shellfish. Some people have food allergies, so please include list of ingredients.

Hold the following dates:

• November 29 will feature gratitude and giving thanks. 3:00-5:30 in Foster Hall at Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Road in Kettering.
• December 7 is the annual Social that provides everyone a chance to get to know each other. The Social begins with a potluck dinner in Foster Hall at Christ United Methodist Church, 3440 Shroyer Road in Kettering. Please bring your favorite dish to share. Again, please do not include pork or shellfish in the recipe. Time: at 6:30 and goes to about 8:30 PM

 

 

From: David K. Greer
Subject: FW: Volunteer Information - City of Dayton - Fall Harvest

October is here and with that soon it will time for the 2017 City of Dayton Fall Harvest event. As you know, the City of Dayton provides our Fall Harvest Trunk or Treat event as a safe alternative to traditional Trick or Treat. We would love to have you to volunteer!  We always aim to provide a great experience for our youth, and that is not possible without the help of wonderful volunteers like yourself.  Please let me know if you are able to volunteer for this year’s event, as we would love to have you.  Event details below.
   

·        What:                          City of Dayton Fall Harvest

·        When:                         Tuesday, October 31, 2017

·        Where:                       Kettering Field (444 North Bend Blvd. Dayton, Ohio 45404)

·        Time:                           6:00 – 8:00 pm

·        Volunteer Time:        5:30 – 8:30 pm

 

 

From: Dayton Literary Peace
Subject: Congratulations to our winning authors!

We are delighted to announce the four authors who have been chosen as the winners and runners-up for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Fiction Winner Patricia Engel for The Veins of the Ocean; Fiction Runner-up Yaa Gyasi for Homegoing; Nonfiction Winner David Wood for What Have We Done; Nonfiction Runner-up Ben Rawlence for City of Thorns. They join Colm Tóibín to fill out our 2017 winners.

These four books take us to Cuba, Columbia, Miami, Marathon Key, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ghana, and Kenya, with stories both real and fictional of people who are struggling to find personal peace. The four authors tell the stories to awaken us as readers and voters to help create a world where peace is possible. Real or fiction, the stories ring true at a time when truth is often obscured and peace seems impossible: we enter the worlds of the storytellers, realize our kinship with them, and draw strength from their struggles.

The 2017 award-winning books add to the rich collection of DLPP stories of the quest for peace around the world.

Our Winners

Prize in Fiction

Patricia Engel is the author of Vida, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award and Young Lions Fiction Award, and the acclaimed novel It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Boston Review, A Public Space, Harvard Review, and Guernica, among other publications and anthologies, and received numerous awards including a 2014 fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts

"Literature can show us what is best in mankind and cast an unforgiving light on the ways we fail ourselves and one another. That an award should recognize the power of the written word to foster human understanding and eradicate imposed and imagined borders in the world community is remarkably brave, and reminds us that as artists we are called through our work, above all things, to the pursuit of peace. I am deeply grateful and honored that my novel has been recognized in this way." —Patricia Engel

Prize in Nonfiction

David Wood, a veteran war reporter, is a staff correspondent for the Huffington Post, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on severely wounded warriors. A birthright Quaker and raised as a pacifist, Wood has spent more than thirty years covering the U.S. military and conflicts around the world, most recently in extended deployments embedded with American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"News of this award awakened in me powerful memories of the time I spent in Bosnia reporting on the atrocities of that war and on the incredible strength and perseverance of the families who endured those terrible years. And later, as I accompanied U.S. peacekeeping troops into Bosnia, documenting how the Dayton Peace Agreement was gradually transforming a fragile cease-fire into a structure enabling Bosnians and Serbs and Croats to begin the hard work of recovering their common humanity. That effort goes on, in Bosnia and globally, and I am immensely proud and grateful to be a small part of the peace-building work that the Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors." —David Wood

Runner-Up in Fiction

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

"Literature shows us the world as it truly is, but it also shows us the world as it could be—peaceful, empathetic, humane. It is literature that we so often turn to when we want to better understand each other, and I’m encouraged by the fact that people keep seeking this understanding. These days we are constantly confronted with our differences and we are urged to protect ourselves from “the other,” but one of the great powers of literature is not that it erases these difference, but rather that it highlights them in order to show us how complex we all are, how rich our world is because of this complexity. I am so honored to be recognized by the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Thank you." —Yaa Gyasi

Runner-Up in Nonfiction

Ben Rawlence is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the horn of Africa. He is the author of Radio Congo and has written for a wide range of publications, including The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and Prospect. He lives in Wales with his family.

"Empathy is the beginning of peace between people. Stories that can show us the world through eyes not our own are the way that we learn empathy. In my view, all literature serves this goal of deepening our shared humanity. To be recognized by a prize for spreading peace is the highest honour a book can achieve." —Ben Rawlence

Our 12th annual gala event is sold out, and will take place November 5, 2017.

Please click to see our upcoming 2017 public events.

 

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