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SUMMARY:Author Karen Gonzalez – Beyond Welcome
DESCRIPTION:Author Karen Gonzalez   Beyond Welcome\n\non January 12\, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm\n\n \n\n(Leominster\, MA) December 10\, 2024  Please join Habitat for Humanity NCM and the First Parish of Bolton for the Third Annual Author Event from 6 to 8 p.m. on January 12th at First Parish in Bolton\, 673 Main Street\, Bolton\, MA. \n\n \n\nAuthor Karen Gonzalez will lead a discussion how many American Christians have good intentions\, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and solidarity. But how can we do that in a way that empowers our immigrant neighbors rather than pushing them to the fringes of white-dominant culture and keeping them as outsiders? That's exactly the question Karen Gonz lez explores in Beyond Welcome. "A top-notch Christian look at immigration\, humane and full of heart."--Publishers Weekly. There will be time for questions after the talk.  Light appetizers and desserts will be served.\n\n \n\nThis event is FREE to the public but please email diana@ncmhabitat.org to reserve your spot\n\n \n\nFor more information or to sign up visit ncmhabitat.org\n\n \n\nThe proceeds from the event will support Habitat NCM's work\, including two homes being built in Ayer and Leominster as well at Critical Home Repairs in the 30 towns we serve.\n\n \n\nAbout Karen Gonzalez\n\nKaren Gonz lez is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker\, writer\, public theologian\, and immigrant advocate\, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public-school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary\, where she studied theology and missiology.\n\nFor the last 15 years\, she has been a non-profit professional\, currently working for an organization that serves asylum seekers.\n\n \n\nAbout Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts  \n\nHabitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts offers a hand up\, not a hand out\, to hard-working\, low-income central Massachusetts families seeking affordable home ownership. Habitat NCM builds and repairs simple\, decent houses with people in need\, serving 30 towns and cities in North Central Massachusetts.  Habitat NCM also operates the Leominster ReStore\, 637 Lancaster Street (Route 117)\, which raises funds through the sale of discounted and recycled materials and furniture.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Author Karen Gonzalez &ndash\; <em>Beyond Welcome</em></strong><br />\n<strong>on January 12\, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm</strong><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong><span style="color:black\;">(Leominster\, MA) December 10\, 2024</span></strong><span style="color:black\;"> &ndash\;Please join Habitat for Humanity NCM and the First Parish of Bolton for the Third Annual Author Event from 6 to 8 p.m. on January 12th at First Parish in Bolton\, 673 Main Street\, Bolton\, MA. </span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">Author Karen Gonzalez will lead a discussion <span style="background:white\;">how many American Christians have good intentions\, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and solidarity. But how can we do that in a way that empowers our immigrant neighbors rather than pushing them to the fringes of white-dominant culture and keeping them as outsiders? That&#39\;s exactly the question Karen Gonz&aacute\;lez explores in <strong><em>Beyond Welcome.</em></strong> <strong>&quot\;A top-notch Christian look at immigration\, humane and full of heart.&quot\;--Publishers Weekly</strong>. </span></span><span style="background:white\;"><span style="color:black\;"><span style="font-family:poppins\;">T</span></span></span><span style="color:black\;">here will be time for questions after the talk.&nbsp\; Light appetizers and desserts will be served.</span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">This event is FREE to the public but please email <a href="mailto:diana@ncmhabitat.org"><span style="color:black\;">diana@ncmhabitat.org</span></a></span> to reserve your spot<br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">For more information or to sign up visit <a href="file:///C:/Users/Carolyn/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/Y2MQXD6D/ncmhabitat.org"><span style="color:black\;">ncmhabitat.org</span></a></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="color:black\;">The proceeds from the event will support Habitat NCM&rsquo\;s work\, including two homes being built in Ayer and Leominster as well at Critical Home Repairs in the 30 towns we serve.</span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong>About Karen Gonzalez</strong><br />\n<span style="background:white\;"><span style="color:black\;">Karen Gonz&aacute\;lez is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker\, writer\, public theologian\, and immigrant advocate\, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public-school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary\, where she studied theology and missiology.</span></span><br />\n<span style="color:black\;"><span style="background:white\;">For the last 15 years\, she has been a non-profit professional\, currently working for an organization that serves asylum seekers.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<strong>About Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts&nbsp\; </strong><br />\nHabitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts offers&nbsp\;<em>a hand up\, not a hand out\,</em>&nbsp\;to hard-working\, low-income central Massachusetts families seeking affordable home ownership. Habitat NCM builds and repairs simple\, decent houses with people in need\, serving 30 towns and cities in North Central Massachusetts.&nbsp\; Habitat NCM also operates the Leominster ReStore\, 637 Lancaster Street (Route 117)\, which raises funds through the sale of discounted and recycled materials and furniture<strong>. </strong>
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