th The Annual 24 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry

“Realizing Dr. ’s Vision for Every Child: Ending Child Poverty”

July 16 – 20, 2018 Children’s Defense Fund – Haley Farm Clinton, Tennessee 25 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 • (202) 628-8787 • 1 (800) 233-1200 www.childrensdefense.org/Proctor www.childrensdefense.org Map of CDF Haley Farm

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1) Lodge 7) Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel 11) Dining Areas (in the Main Tent) 2) Lodge Board Room 8) Pastoral Room 12) Labyrinth 3) Langston Hughes Library 9) Registration, Action Center, First Aid, 13) Restrooms and Lost and Found 4) Business Center and Luggage (in the Main Tent) 5) Little Brown Building #1 10) Publications Tables (in the Main Tent) 6) Chapel Board Room The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry

Welcome Letter from Marian Wright Edelman...... 2

Daily Schedule...... 5

CDF Proctor Institute Faculty-in-Residence and Staff...... 10

Great Preachers and Plenary Speakers...... 14

Workshop Descriptions...... 19

Late Afternoon Options ...... 27 Special Opportunities • Early Morning Option: Meditations for the Journey...... 31 • Late Night Option: Open Mic and Intergenerational Conversation ...... 31 • Publications Tables and Author Book Signings...... 32 • Taking Action at Proctor: 2018 Action Center...... 34 • Taking Action After Proctor: CDF Child Defender Fellowship...... 34 • 2018 National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® Weekend...... 35 • About the CDF ® Program...... 36 • About the CDF Proctor Institute’s CDF Freedom Schools® Program...... 37 • CDF Proctor Institute: Graduate Intensive...... 39 About the CDF Proctor Institute • History...... 41 • The Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor...... 42 • Past Great Preachers...... 43 • CDF Haley Farm Emergency Information and Staff...... 44

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 1 Welcome to the 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry

Dear Proctor Family:

Thank you for joining us in our Beloved Community as we come together for the inspiration, information, strategies, skills, and support we need to protect our children, end child poverty, challenge oppression and injustice, and transform our nation and world.

We gather fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. announced the Poor People’s Campaign. We gather fifty years after Rev. Jim Lawson and the Memphis Sanitation Workers strike galvanized working folks to demand change from their community, state and Congress for decent wages. We gather fifty years after Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and farm workers, many of them immigrants, mobilized for justice through the collective power of the United Farm Workers. We gather fifty years after courageous students like Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Joyce Hobson Johnson, Rev. Nelson Johnson and a number of others here sat in at lunch counters across the South, desegregated public libraries and transportation, and mobilized on campuses and in communities to generate profound and lasting change. It is time for the next transforming movement to end poverty beginning with our children and racial injustice driven by Dr. King’s three great evils: racism, materialism and militarism.

They were days of terrible lows but also inspiring highs, of devastating losses and stunning victories when it had seemed all might be lost. We learned through our struggles as well as our successes, through what worked and what didn’t and why. And we kept going forward. They were hard, scary, fearful times of purpose when we held close to each other, to our faith, and to our conviction that, to paraphrase the song “Can’t Give Up Now,” we didn’t believe God had brought us this far to leave us.

Fifty years later, we are in the midst of grimmer, more devastating, more terrible days than many of us hoped and thought we would ever see again. I can only imagine the terror and helpless desperation felt by nearly 3,000 severed children and parents. It is sickening that thousands of children have been snatched from parents in a strange land, placed with strange caregivers, who may not speak their language, in detention facilities – even cages – with the timeline for reuniting them being debated in the courts. Assaults on children and family well-being—including the heartless ripping of children from their parents’ arms as they seek refuge in our country to the families torn asunder by mass incarceration and the Cradle to Prison Pipeline, rampant and resurgent racism, the devastations of poverty with safety nets shredded and tax changes gifting the rich at the expense of millions left behind and among pretensions to be a just society—drive many to despair. But this is no time to stop fighting with all our nonviolent might.

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote these words that were only published after his death in an essay titled “Testament of Hope.” They still speak to us today:

[My] words may have an unexpectedly optimistic ring at a time when pessimism is the prevailing mood. People are often surprised to learn that I am an optimist. They know how often I have been jailed, how frequently the days and nights have been filled with frustration

2 n Children’s Defense Fund and sorrow, how bitter and dangerous are my adversaries. They expect these experiences to harden me into a grim and desperate man. They fail, however, to perceive the sense of affirmation generated by the challenge of embracing struggle and surmounting obstacles. They have no comprehension of the strength that comes from faith in God and [people]. It is possible for me to falter, but I am profoundly secure in my knowledge that God loves us; [God] has not worked out a design for our failure. [People have] the capacity to do right as well as wrong, and … history is a path upward, not downward. The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to [humanity’s] blunders but to [humanity’s] capacity to overcome them. While it is a bitter fact that in America in 1968, I am denied equality solely because I am black, yet I am not a chattel slave. Millions of people have fought thousands of battles to enlarge my freedom; restricted as it still is, progress has been made. This is why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us. Why is the issue of equality still so far from solution in America, a nation that professes itself to be democratic, inventive, hospitable to new ideas, rich, productive and awesomely powerful? The problem is so tenacious because, despite its virtues and attributes, America is deeply racist and its democracy is flawed both economically and socially. All too many Americans believe justice will unfold painlessly or that its absence for black people will be tolerated tranquilly.

Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token changes quell all the tempestuous yearnings of millions of disadvantaged black people. White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo.

We gather here at CDF’s Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry in 2018 recognizing that justice demands radical changes in our society and that the status quo cannot continue. We gather here as today’s students and young adult leaders, as clergy and organizers, as educators and activists determined to embrace struggle and surmount obstacles, drawing strength from God and each other, Together, we will worship and work, sing and strategize, drill down into the information and lift up new ideas, take action and rest so that when we leave this place we will be a mighty force to speak up, stand up, vote out those who block a democratic fair nation, and help realize, at last, Dr. King’s vision for every child and end child poverty as a first step towards ending poverty for all in our nation. Repeating from “Can’t Give Up Now,” “We can’t give up now. We’ve come too far from where we started from. Nobody told us the road would be easy. And I don’t believe God’s brought us this far to leave us.” Our road has not been easy, but we will not give up and we certainly won’t go back—we won’t go back to White male supremacy or segregation, we won’t go back to slavery by any name, we won’t go back to society acting as if God made two classes of children. We won’t go back and will work together in every possible way to move forward to remove the stumbling blocks and make the road easier for all children. And we’ll never give up. If the first, second, third, fifth things don’t work, we’ll try the next ten until we succeed. Freedom and justice are not negotiable to people who truly seek to honor God.

As the Trump Administration continues its cruel policies which sever crucial child-parent bonds and ignores due process protections under American law and children and families continue to be confined in detention and other facilities, I hope our voices will reach a thundering roar to penetrate the moral deafness of this Administration and allies in Congress. The anti-immigrant sentiment whipped up by the intemperate rhetoric of our President evokes memories of another historic period of toxic hatred, bigotry and intolerance during slavery which dehumanized millions and severed family bonds. We must meet today’s snatching of children from parents with roaring .

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 3 God did not make two classes of children and values each child as God’s own sacred gift regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexuality, or national origin.

I share this prayer to the God of All Children, remembering Jesus was taken by His parents to Egypt to escape slaughter, and hope together we will help our nation and administration discover a sense of moral decency and respect the sacredness of every child.

A Prayer to the God of All Children

O God of the children of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, of Myanmar, Syria Nigeria, Sudan, South and South Carolina, Of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Yemen Of Rohingya and Palestinian children and refugee children everywhere without a safe country or space to welcome them, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

O God of Black and Brown and White and Albino children and those all mixed together Of children who are rich and poor and in between Of children who speak English and Russian and Hmong, Chinese, Korean, Spanish and Arabic and languages and dialects our ears cannot discern, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

O God of the child prodigy and child prostitute, of the child of rapture and the child of rape, Of run or thrown away and sexually trafficked children who struggle every day without parent or place or friend or future, and of LGBT+ children struggling to be who they are, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

O God of children who can walk and talk and hear and see and sing and dance and jump and play and of children who wish they could but can’t Of children who are loved and unloved, wanted and unwanted, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

O God of incarcerated, beggar, beaten, abused, orphaned, neglected, homeless, AIDS, drug, violence, and hunger-ravaged children and children torn from parents and caged in strange lands, Of emotionally and physically and mentally fragile children, and children who rebel and ridicule, torment and taunt, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

O God of children of destiny and of despair, ravaged by the wars and ideologies and political agendas of adults, Of children fleeing crime and drug cartels and gang violence, and life threatening poverty Of disfigured, diseased, and dying children Of children without hope and of children with hope to spare and to share, Help us to love and respect and protect and welcome them all.

I look forward to being with you this week and to working together in the years to come to make it so.

In hope, faith, and determination,

Marian Wright Edelman

4 n Children’s Defense Fund Proctor Institute Schedule

Monday, July 16

9:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. Pre-Session for Seminarians – Chapel

12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration – Main Tent

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch for Early Arrivals – Main Tent

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Orientation Session for First Time Participants – Lodge (pictured below)

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Pre-Session for Campus Chaplains – Dining Room

3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m Guided Walking Tour (Departing from Lodge)

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Screening: “Mr. Sceva and His Seven Sons” – Chapel

5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Rehearsal for the Resurrection Choir – Chapel Dr. Eli Wilson, Jr., Director; Don Lewis, Organist (All are welcome to participate)

6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Dinner – Main Tent

7:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. Welcome – Chapel Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund

7:45 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. Great Preachers Series – Chapel Rev. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO, Deaconess Foundation, St. Louis, MO

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 5 Tuesday, July 17

6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Area Hotels

7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Meditations for the Journey – Langston Hughes Library Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Proctor Co-Chaplain-in-Residence

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Morning Devotions – Chapel Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Proctor Co-Pastor-in-Residence

9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Bible/Theological Study – Chapel Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce, Professor and Dean, Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Children and Justice Plenary – Chapel From the Poor People’s Campaign to CDF’s End Child Poverty Campaign , historian and author of America in the King Years Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., leading theoretician and tactician of and key adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Advocacy Action

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch – Main Tent Publications Area Open Author Book-Signing from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Workshops (See pages 19-26)

4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Late Afternoon Options (See pages 27-30)

6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Dinner – Main Tent

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Great Preacher Series – Chapel Rev. Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes, Associate Professor of Worship, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY

After worship – 10:00 p.m. “Open-mic” & Intergenerational Conversation (optional) Facilitated by Rev. Damien Durr, Executive Pastor at Friendship- West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX, and Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville

6 n Children’s Defense Fund Wednesday, July 18

6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Area Hotels

7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Meditations for the Journey – Langston Hughes Library Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Proctor Co-Chaplain-in-Residence

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Morning Devotions – Chapel Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Proctor Co-Pastor-in-Residence Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Proctor Co-Pastor-in-Residence

9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Bible/Theological Study – Chapel Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler, Associate Professor of Bible, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Charlotte, NC

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Children and Justice Plenary – Chapel From Memphis to Raleigh and Beyond: Mobilizing in Communities and Congress Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Education and Research Center, New Market, TN Jamila Raqib, Executive Director, Albert Einstein Institution, Cambridge, MA Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler, moderator

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Advocacy Action

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Publications Area Open Author Book-Signing from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Workshops (See pages 19-26)

4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Late Afternoon Options (See pages 27-30)

6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Great Preacher Series – Chapel Rev. Dr. Gregory C. Ellison II, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care, Candler School of , , GA Minister Tavares N. Stephens, Fearless Dialogues Animator Julian Reid, Artist and Fearless Dialogues Animator, , IL

After worship – 10:00 p.m. “Open-mic” & Intergenerational Conversation (optional)

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 7 Thursday, July 19

6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Area Hotels

7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Meditations for the Journey – Langston Hughes Library Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Proctor Co-Chaplain-in-Residence

8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Morning Devotions – Chapel Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Proctor Co-Pastor-in-Residence

9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Bible/Theological Study – Chapel Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, Proctor Theologian-in-Residence

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Children and Justice Plenary – Chapel Si Se Puede: Intersecting Justice Movements Dolores Huerta, Founder and President, The Dolores Huerta Foundation, Bakersfield, CA Saira Soto, Deputy Executive Director, CDF-California, Los Angeles, CA Rev. Dr. Patrick Reyes, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Doctoral Initiatives, The Forum for Theological Exploration, Decatur, GA, moderator

12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Advocacy Action

12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch Publications Area Open Author Book-Signing from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Workshops (See pages 19-26)

4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Late Afternoon Options (See pages 27-30)

6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Dinner

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Great Preacher Series – Chapel Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Constructive Theology, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago, IL

After worship – 10:00 p.m. “Open-mic” & Intergenerational Conversation (optional)

8 n Children’s Defense Fund Friday, July 20

Participants should bring luggage with them to CDF Haley Farm on the Friday morning hotel shuttle. Luggage will be stored at the registration tent until the airport shuttles depart. All airport shuttle departures after 7:45 a.m. will be from CDF Haley Farm, not the hotels.

6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast in Area Hotels

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Children and Justice Plenary From Campus Sit-Ins to Freedom Schools: Unleashing the Power of Young People for Change Rev. Jen Bailey, Co-Founder, Faith Matters Network, , MA Joyce Hobson Johnson, Director of the Jubilee Institute of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Greensboro, NC Joy Masha, Founder, Read Lead, Los Angeles, CA Rev. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO, The Deaconess Foundation, St. Louis, MO, moderator

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Closing Charge and Celebration of Communion and Commitment – Chapel Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund Rev. Cynthia Jarvis, Minister and Head of Staff, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, PA, preaching Proctor CDF Freedom Schools® Scholars

11:30 a.m. Box Lunch

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Campus Chaplains Post Session – White House Dining Room

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Seminarians’ Post-Session – Lodge

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 9 CDF Proctor Institute Faculty-in-Residence and Staff

Emily Caplan, Volunteer Coordinator at the the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational CDF Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Fund office in Jackson, Miss. In 1968, she Ministry, is a current Masters moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Research Fellow at the Poor People’s that Dr. Martin Luther Clark Fox Policy Institute at King Jr. began organizing before his death. She Washington University in has received over a hundred honorary degrees St. Louis where she is also and awards including the Albert Schweitzer pursuing a Masters degree Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award, a in Social Work. Emily first MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, the joined the Children’s Defense fund in 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s as an intern and most recently served the highest civilian award, and the Robert F. Kennedy organization as Direct Response Manager. Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings which include: The Measure of Our Success: A The Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, CDF Letter to My Children and Yours; Lanterns: A Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute Director and Memoir of Mentors; I’m Your Child God: Prayers CDF Religious Action Advisor, has served for Our Children; and The Sea Is So Wide and CDF in various capacities My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the since 1990. As CDF’s Next Generation. Edelman graduated from Director of Religious Affairs, Spelman College and Yale Law School. she created the National Observance of Children’s The Rev. William C. Gipson, Proctor Sabbaths® weekend in 1992 Co-Chaplain-in-Residence, is associate vice and launched the Samuel provost for equity and access at the University DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy of Pennsylvania and an Ministry in 1995. She is an ordained minister adjunct assistant professor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Rev. of religious studies, having Daley-Harris has authored many publications served previously as university including her recent book, Hope for the Future: chaplain and special adviser Answering God’s Call to Justice for Our Children, to the president for 12 and writes the Children’s Sabbaths resource years. He is a member of the manual each year. She graduated from Brown faculty at the W.E.B. Du Bois College. Rev. University and Wesley Theological Seminary. Gipson earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and his Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Master of Divinity from the Colgate Rochester Children’s Defense Fund, has been an advocate Crozer Divinity School, Rochester, NY. for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional Don Lewis, Proctor life. Under her leadership, the Organist, is a visionary who Washington-based CDF has believes that music can and become the nation’s strongest does make a difference in voice for children and the world, whether he is families. She began her career performing in Carnegie in the mid-60s when, as the first Black woman Hall or the Sydney Opera admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed House, in cathedrals in Europe or jazz clubs

10 n Children’s Defense Fund in Chicago. Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Proctor Mr. Lewis’ early interest in synthesizers and Co-Pastor-in-Residence, is the Pastor Emeritus the organ led him in 1977 to create LEO of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in (Live Electronic Orchestra), considered to be Cleveland, Ohio. Previously, a pioneering effort that helped shape current he served as co-pastor with synthesizer technology. As a recording artist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. he has worked in the studio with the likes of at Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez and Marvin in Atlanta. For over 50 years, Hamlisch. In 1987, he created the Say “Yes” Dr. Moss has been directly to Music! Program, bringing the importance of involved in the Civil Rights dreams, education and community to children Movement as a religious leader and community through music. He visits churches around the activist, espousing the nonviolent approach country, performing concerts, teaching gospel/ for affecting social and political change. church music technology workshops and Moss’ many honors include four honorary leading gospel music services. doctorates and a citation in 2000 from the Howard University College of Medicine. He The Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, Proctor has served as chairman of the Board of Trustees Theologian-in-Residence, is the senior pastor of , is a life member of the of The Presbyterian Church at Tenafly in NAACP and served as a consultant to former New Jersey. She previously President Jimmy Carter. In 2004, he was the served pastorates in Illinois, Lyman Beecher Lecturer for New York and New Jersey. Divinity School. He is the co-author, with his Additionally, Dr. Lindner son, of Preach! The Power and Purpose Behind was an overseas mission Our Praise. Dr. Moss has been selected twice associate for the Presbyterian by Ebony magazine as one of “America’s 15 Church (U.S.A.) in Egypt Greatest Black Preachers” and listed as one and Lebanon assigned to the Middle East of 30 people who have defined Cleveland in Council of Churches, served the Carter White the last 30 years. He received his Bachelor of House in the area of child welfare policy, and Arts from Morehouse College, his Master of has taught at the nation’s leading seminaries. Divinity from Morehouse School of Religion/ As Deputy General Secretary of the National ITC, and his Doctor of Ministry from the Council of the Churches of Christ in the United Theological Seminary. USA for many years, her duties included a The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Proctor variety of national and international ministries Co-Pastor-in-Residence, is the Senior Pastor of including child advocacy, research studies and Trinity in Chicago, planning. Dr. Lindner was the Editor of the Illinois. He is the former Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches pastor of the Tabernacle and authored Thus Far on the Way: Toward Baptist Church in Augusta, a Theology of Child Advocacy, When Churches . Dr. Moss’ many Mind the Children and numerous articles honors include the 2016 and publications. A graduate of Waynesburg NAACP Chairman’s Award College in Pennsylvania, she holds Masters and delivering the Yale degrees from Aurora University (counseling University Lyman Beecher Lectures in 2014. psychology), McCormick Theological Seminary His books include Redemption in a Red Light (theology), and the Ph.D. degree from Union District; The Gospel Re-Mix: How to Reach the Theological Seminary, New York. She has also Hip-Hop Generation; Preach! The Power and done post-doctoral work at the University of Purpose Behind Our Praise (coauthored with Edinburgh and Harvard. his father);The Gospel According to the Wiz and The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 11 Other Sermons from Cinema; and Blue Note The Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Proctor Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in Co-Chaplain-in-Residence, is the former an Age of Despair based on his Lyman Beecher Chaplain of Yale University and a licensed Lectures. His sermons, articles and poetry have clinical social worker. He appeared in numerous publications. Dr. Moss serves as the Senior Pastor is an ordained minister in the Progressive of the historic Dixwell National Baptist Convention and the United Avenue Congregational Church of Christ, carrying dual standing in both United Church of Christ denominations. Dr. Moss received his Bachelor in New Haven, CT. He of Arts in religion and philosophy from has, throughout his career Morehouse College, a Master of Divinity from as a Senior Pastor and clinical social worker, Yale University where he was awarded the FTE focused on developing programs nurturing Benjamin Elijah Mays Scholarship in Religion children and youth, mental health care and and the Yale University Magee Fellowship, and promoting dialogue between Christian, Jews his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. and Muslims and other religious communities. The Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan Simpson, Dr. Streets was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Proctor Co-Chaplain-in-Residence, is the the University of Pretoria and the University Executive Pastor of The Concord Baptist of the Free State in South Africa. As a faculty Church of Christ, Brooklyn, member of the Harvard Program in Refugee NY. She previously served Trauma, his research, teaching and counseling as Executive Director of practices focus on trauma and mental health the Children’s Defense and spirituality. He is also adjunct Associate Fund – New York where Professor at Yale University Divinity School she worked with advocates and the School of Social to name and address New Work in . York’s cradle to prison pipeline crisis, to close The Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Proctor abusive youth prisons and to redirect resources Co-Chaplain-in-Residence, is Associate to invest in youth and their communities. Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel at Prior to that, she served as Executive Director Princeton University. As an of Girls Incorporated of New York City and ordained Elder in the United as Executive Vice President for the Bedford Methodist Church, Dean Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. Her Thames served as a local writings include a meditation, “Loving Our pastor in the Washington, Daughters,” for Sister to Sister: A Devotional for D.C. metropolitan area for African American Women. She is a graduate of nine years before joining (BA Double major - Religious Princeton’s Office of Religious Life staff. She is and Philosophical Studies and Music), Union a graduate of Howard University with a B.A. in Theological Seminary in New York City Human Communication Studies, received her (M.Div.), and earned the Certificate in Not for M.Div. with a concentration in Gender Studies Profit Management, Executive Level from the from Duke Divinity School and her Doctor of Columbia Business School Institute for Not for Ministry from Wesley Seminary. Dean Thames Profit Management. She earned the Doctor of is passionate about the intersections of theology, Ministry Degree (with distinction) from Drew community, and social justice. Theological Seminary in 2009.​

12 n Children’s Defense Fund Dr. Eli Wilson, Jr., Director of the The Rev. Dr. Janet Wolf, Consultant on Resurrection Choir and Proctor Minister of Nonviolent Organization and Theological Music, is an ordained church musician with Education, which focuses on combating zero 40 years of service in the tolerance school discipline church music ministry. He policies and dismantling the is currently the founder Cradle to Prison Pipeline™. and CEO of Eli Wilson She previously served as Ministries, Inc., a church faculty chair and professor music education ministry. He at American Baptist College served as a minister of music in Nashville and for 12 years at the St. Paul Community Baptist Church served as pastor of rural and urban United in Brooklyn. In 1993, Dr. Wilson accepted Methodist congregations. As director of public the position of associate pastor of music at policy and community outreach with Religious the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Brooklyn. In Leaders for a More Just and Compassionate 1999, he became associate pastor of music and Drug Policy, she worked with a national performing arts at the New Covenant Baptist interfaith coalition on harm reduction, Church of Orlando. Dr. Wilson’s recordings alternatives to incarceration and restorative include: “Introducing Eli Wilson, Jr.: God’s justice. She is the author of “To See and To Word Shall Stand Forevermore” and “In My Be Seen,” a chapter in I Was in Prison: United Quiet Time.” He did his undergraduate work Methodist Perspectives on Prison Ministry. For 12 at Dillard University and his postgraduate years she also served as a community organizer work at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School around poverty rights. Dr. Wolf holds a Master and the Eastman School of Music in the areas degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School and of Christian education and sacred music. In a D. Min. from New Brunswick Theological 1990, he received the Honorary Doctorate of Seminary. Humane Letters degree from Seminary and College.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 13 Great Preachers and Plenary Speakers

Rev. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Dr. public theologian, and emerging national leader Carvalhaes is an ordained teaching elder within in the multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). A published Founding Executive Director author, editor, and highly sought after speaker, of the Faith Matters Network, Dr. Carvalhaes has preached at Wild Goose a new interfaith community Festival, Festival of Homiletics, and other equipping faith leaders to preaching events. He led worship for the All challenge structural inequality African Council of Churches in Mozambique, in their communities. Jennifer taught at the Global Institute of Theology of comes to this work with nearly the World Communion of Reformed Churches, a decade of experience at nonprofits combatting and leads worship and teaches at the Hispanic intergenerational poverty. Summer Program since 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Liturgy and Theology at Union Taylor Branch is an American author and Theological Seminary in New York City, his public speaker best known for his landmark first Master of Philosophy degree in Theology, trilogy on the civil rights era, America in the Philosophy, and History at Methodist King Years. The trilogy’s first University of Sao Paulo, and a Master of book, Parting the Waters: Divinity degree from Independent Presbyterian America in the King Years, Theological Seminary (Sao Paulo, Brazil). 1954-63, won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other Rev. Dr. Gregory C. Ellison, II is an associate awards in 1989. Two successive Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at volumes also gained critical Emory University Candler and popular success: Pillar of Fire: America in School of Theology. His the King Years, 1963-65, and At Canaan’s Edge: teaching draws primarily America in the King Years, 1965-1968. Decades from his work with Fearless later, all three books remain in demand. Branch Dialogues, a grassroots returned to civil rights history in his latest community empowerment book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the initiative he co-founded, that (2013). He served as creates unique spaces for young people and executive producer for the HBO documentary community to have hard, heartfelt conversations film “King in the Wilderness” (2018), on taboo subjects like racism, classism, and about Dr. King’s final three years before his community violence. Ellison’s research focuses assassination in Memphis. on caring with marginalized populations, pastoral care as social activism, and 20th and Rev. Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes, a theologian, 21st century mysticism. He is the author of Cut liturgist, artist, and native Brazilian, joined Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Union Theological Seminary Young Men and Fearless Dialogues: The Civil Rights in New York City as the Movement of the 21st Century and has a book in Associate Professor of progress with Westminster John Knox Press – Worship in 2016. Previously, Anchored in the Current: The Eternal Wisdom of he taught at McCormick Howard Thurman in a Changing World. He is Theological Seminary, an ordained Baptist minister who has served in Lutheran Theological Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Seminary in and Louisville

14 n Children’s Defense Fund Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is a 33 year community; and create strong leadership old, Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working development. She has received numerous class woman, born and raised awards: among them the Eleanor Roosevelt in Southeast Tennessee. She Human Rights Award from President Clinton is co-executive director of in l998, and in 2012 the Presidential Medal of the Highlander Research Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, and Education Center in from President Obama. New Market, TN. Before joining Highlander, she was Rev. Cynthia A. Jarvis never intended to President of the Black Affairs Association at become a Presbyterian minister. An English East Tennessee State University. Ms. Henderson major at Denison University, she considered has extensive experience with community journalism, theater, the writing organizing and is a former staff member of life or even, in desperation, the Chicago SNCC (Student Nonviolent becoming a paralegal. Instead Coordinating Committee) History Project. she received a Rockefeller Trial A long-time environmental justice activist, Year Fellowship in 1971, a she focuses on mountaintop removal mining grant designed for religious and environmental racism in central and outliers whose questions southern Appalachia. An active participant in about God far outnumbered their affirmations. the Movement for Black Lives, she is on the She completed her M.Div. degree in June governance council of the Southern Movement of 1974 at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Assembly, organizer with Concerned Citizens was awarded the Tillet Prize in Theology. for Justice (Chattanooga, TN), and a former She was ordained to be assistant minister of regional organizer at Project South: Institute for Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wooster, the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She Ohio, and then served Nassau Presbyterian holds a B.A. in English with a minor in African Church in Princeton, N.J. Since 1996, she and African American History. has been the minister and head of staff of the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. Dolores Huerta, president and founder of the Currently, she is co-editor of a seven volume Dolores Huerta Foundation is a labor leader biblical commentary for Westminster John and community organizer. Knox Press entitled Feasting on the Gospels. She She has worked for civil rights is also co-editor of two books: Loving God with and social justice for over 50 the Mind: The Pastor as Theologian and The years. In 1962 she and Cesar Power to Comprehend with All the Saints: The Chavez founded the United Formation and Practice of a Pastor-Theologian. Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and Joyce Hobson Johnson, Director of the Jubilee played a critical role in many of the union’s Institute of the Beloved Community Center accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she of Greensboro, has been an activist since high received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for school in Richmond, VA, Creative Citizenship which she used to establish during the 1960s struggle the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF for civil rights and open is connecting groundbreaking community-based accommodations. She organizing to state and national movements deepened her involvement to register and educate voters; advocate for in college while supporting education reform; bring about infrastructure campus non-academic improvements in low-income communities; employees and the movement for relevant advocate for greater equality for the LGBT education. A former university business

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 15 professor and transportation research director, Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. is a leading Johnson and others established the pace- theoretician and tactician of nonviolence and setting Greensboro Truth and Community was a key adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Reconciliation Project in 2001. This Jr. on nonviolent direct initiative was designed to encourage truth, action strategies in the Civil understanding, and healing related to the tragic Rights Movement. He murder of five labor and racial justice organizers continues to train activists by and American Nazi Party in nonviolence. In 1951, members on November 3, 1979. In addition, Rev. Lawson was sentenced she is a member of the Executive Committee of to three years in prison for the NC NAACP, the lead entity of the Moral refusing the Korean War draft. Drawing on Monday Movement and a co-chair of the the example of Christ’s suffering, he taught National Council of Elders. growing numbers of Black and White students how to organize sit-ins and any other form of Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey is a scholar, social action that would force America to confront justice activist, and military veteran, currently the immorality of segregation. Rev. Lawson serving as Vice President for Academic Affairs helped coordinate the Freedom Rides in 1961 and Associate Professor of Constructive and the Meredith March in 1966, and while Theology at Meadville working as a pastor at the Centenary Methodist Lombard Theological School Church in Memphis played a major role in the in Chicago. Prior to that, sanitation workers strike of 1968. On the eve of she served as Associate Dean his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. called at School Lawson “the leading theorist and strategist of of Theology. In 2005, Dr. nonviolence in the world.” Rev. Lawson graduated Lightsey was ordained as from Baldwin-Wallace College and received a an elder in full connection in the United Master in Theology from Boston University. Methodist Church becoming the first out African American queer lesbian clergy in the Joy Masha, daughter of an immigrant father denomination. As an activist, Dr. Lightsey has from Nigeria, was born and raised in Long worked within the LGBTQ community to end Beach, California by her single mother. She is the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell military policy and the first member of her family to ensure marriage equality. She was on the to obtain undergraduate and ground protesting against excessive police force graduate degrees. Ms. Masha during the first 21 days of unrest in Ferguson is co-founder of Read Lead, and has consistently collaborated with activist- a summer school program colleagues in the movement for the liberation that provides free education of Black lives, those addressing violence against enrichment for low-income Black transwomen, and institutional racism on elementary and middle school students and college campuses. Dr. Lightsey’s publications their families in the Los Angeles area. Ms. include, Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Masha believes restorative education is a Theology, “ He Is Black and We are Queer” necessity when establishing dignity, relationship in Albert Cleage Jr and the Black Madonna building, and transformative justice in both and Child, and “Reconciliation,” in Prophetic African and Black communities. She is the Evangelicals: Envisioning a Just and Peaceable education deputy for California State Senator Kingdom. Holly J. Mitchell, Chair of the Budget Committee.

16 n Children’s Defense Fund Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce is Professor and a curriculum intended to help groups prepare Dean of Howard University School of Divinity wise strategic plans to conduct struggles for in Washington, DC. In 2016, Dr. Pierce the defense and attainment of their civil and served as the Director of political rights. the Center for the Study of African American Religious Julian Reid is an artist and Fearless Dialogues Life at the Smithsonian Animator. Hailing from Chicago, Reid is a National Museum of African pianist and member of the American History and Culture genre-bending band The JuJu (NMAAHC). Before coming Exchange. Rivaling his love of to Howard, she was Director of the Center for music is his love of theology, Studies and Associate Professor of which he explores at Candler Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological School of Theology as a Seminary. Dr. Pierce’s research specialties include Master of Divinity student. African American Religious History; Womanist Theology; African American Literature; and Rev. Dr. Patrick B. Reyes is the Director of Race and Religion. In addition to her teaching Strategic Partnerships for Doctoral Initiatives and academic scholarship, Dr. Pierce is an at the Forum for Theological ordained Christian minister, dedicated mentor, Exploration, and a Latinx community activist, board member of a foster practical theologian, educator, care agency, and cable news commentator. administrator and institutional strategist. At the Forum for Theological Exploration, he Jamila Raqib is a specialist in the study and supports scholars of color and practice of strategic nonviolent action and works with institutional leaders on a number of the executive director of the Albert Einstein inclusive excellence initiatives. Dr. Reyes helps Institution, which works to communities, organizations and individuals advance the research and excavate their stories to create strategies and application of nonviolent practices that promote thriving. He is the action worldwide. Since author of the book, Nobody Cries When We Die: 2002, she worked with the God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood. late Dr. Gene Sharp, the He previously served as the assistant dean for world’s foremost scholar and Academic Affairs and as the director of the founder of the field of strategic nonviolent Center of Community Engagement at Trinity action. She oversees the development and Lutheran College, and as the director of distribution of resources on nonviolent action communications at Tools for Decision Group. and conducts workshops on strategic planning He has over 15 years of experience working for human rights organizations, universities, and with gang-affiliated, farmworker and religious governments, and for individuals and groups communities on compassion and spiritual struggling for diverse objectives including to practices for healing and founded two groups oppose dictatorship, combat corruption, attain that foster community and decolonize religious political rights, economic justice, environmental and spiritual traditions. Dr. Reyes holds a protection, and women’s empowerment. She is Ph.D. and Master of Arts from Claremont currently a Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media School of Theology, a Master of Divinity Lab, where she is exploring how innovations from Boston University School of Theology in technology and education, among other and a Bachelor of Arts from California State fields, can contribute to greater effectiveness University, Sacramento. in the study and application of nonviolent struggle. Her work includes the development of

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 17 Rev. Dr. Rodney S. Sadler, Jr. is Associate air quality, and exposure to pesticides. In 1998, Professor of Bible and Director of the Center she received a CDF Beat the Odds® scholarship, for Social Justice and Reconciliation at Union and later earned a degree in environmental Presbyterian Seminary in chemistry at the University of California at San Charlotte, NC. He is an Diego. She is a native of Durango, Mexico and ordained Baptist minister who was raised in East Los Angeles. has served in pastoral supply roles at several Presbyterian Minister Tavares N. Stephens is a Fearless congregations and as interim Dialogues Animator. Stephens is the creator pastor at Mt. Carmel Baptist of the spoken word CD, Church (American Baptist) and Sardis Baptist “Lend Me Your Ear,” the Church (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) in author of Soulfood Café, a Charlotte, NC. He authored Can A Cushite book of poetry, and Reading Change His Skin: An Examination of Race, Revolution, a book Ethnicity, and Othering in the Hebrew Bible, of biographies covering co-authored The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical important contributions made Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of to civilization by people of African descent. the Enslaved, and has served as a managing He was a member of Poetry Atlanta’s National and associate editor of The African American Poetry Slam Team, is a former Teacher of the Devotional Bible and the Africana Bible Year, and a recipient of Turner Broadcasting’s respectively. Dr. Sadler is Co-Chair of People Teacher Appreciation Award. Demanding Action, Vice Chair of the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice, Co-Chair of Rev. Starsky D. Wilson is president & CEO the Truth Reconciliation and Anti-poverty of Deaconess Foundation, pastor of Saint Commission, and has worked organizing clergy John’s Church (The Beloved with and developing theological resources Community) and chair of for the Forward Together/Moral Monday the National Committee for Movement in North Carolina. He is a Responsive Philanthropy. His graduate of Howard University (B.S.), Howard faith-rooted activism centers University School of Divinity (M.Div.), and philanthropy, democracy (Ph.D.), and has also studied and equity. With Rev. at Hebrew University (1990). Wilson’s leadership, Deaconess is building a movement for child well-being, recently Saira G. Soto is Deputy Executive Director at opening a collaborative community action the Children’s Defense Fund – California where tank and a network of three Freedom Schools she leads the development, implementation, and with the Children’s Defense Fund. After the expansion of CDF-California death of Michael Brown, Jr., Rev. Wilson programs for children and led the Ferguson Commission. In 2015 they youth, including the Beat the released Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Odds® scholarship program Toward Racial Equity, calling for sweeping and CDF Freedom Schools® changes in policing, the courts, child well- program. She is committed being and economic mobility. In 2017, Rev. to raising strong, literate, Wilson chaired the racial equity advisory group empowered children who aren’t citizens in of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, waiting. Before joining the CDF-California guiding a charge for the affirmation of equity as team, Ms. Soto worked to educate migrant central to smart philanthropy. workers on the health dangers of poor water and

18 n Children’s Defense Fund Afternoon Workshops-at-a-Glance 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Soul Force: Nonviolent Community Organizing Personal Power: Nonviolent Direct Invisible No More: The Struggle for Beloved Community: Nonviolent Action Community Organizing Voter Rights and Racial Equality Direct Action Community Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. Dr. Charlene Sinclair Organizing Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Johnson Education for Emancipation: From Sabbath Schools to Freedom Schools CDF Freedom Schools® Program From Sabbath Schools: Christian Freedom Schools: Bringing the Tara Alexis McCoy, Robin Sally, and Education for Emancipation Model to Your Campus Trainers Dr. Reginald Blount and Dr. Reginald Blount, Dr. Derek Hicks, Dr. Virginia Lee and Dr. Virginia Lee Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline Challenging the Criminalization of Reset the Heart: Unlearning Redefining Justice from the Our Children and Communities Violence, Relearning Hope Inside Out Dr. Charlene Sinclair and Dr. Rima Cadeem Gibbs, Ndume Olatushani, Rahim Buford, Dr. Sarah Farmer, Vesely-Flad and Dr. Mai Ahn Le Tran Ndume Olatushani, and Dr. Charlene Sinclair Prophetic Word King in the Wilderness Public Theology and Racial Justice Preaching for Social Change Documentary Screening Rev. Jen Bailey and Dr. Teresa Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. Smallwood 50 Years of Progress: Where’s We’ve Been, Where We Are and What’s Next Closing the Opportunity Gap: Giving Every Child an Early Start: Health Care for Every Child: Improving the Odds for Children Expanding Early Learning and Healing Our Broken System in Poverty Development Opportunities Dr. Alison Buist, Chet Hewitt, and MaryLee Allen and Austin Sowa Daniel Hains and Bharti Wahi Kindra Montgomery-Block White Supremacy, Trauma and Healing (Re)membering Racial Terror: (Re)membering Racial Terror: Dismantling Racism On Congregating, Storytelling On Congregating, Storytelling Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas and and Healing and Healing Rev. Naomi Tutu Arielle Brown and Mauricio Salgado Arielle Brown and Mauricio Salgad

Dreamers: Building Bridges, Dismantling Walls Creating Responsive Immigrant Youth and Family Bloodlines, Landlines and Song- Communities of Care through Organizing for Full Inclusion lines: Journey Out of Whiteness Innovative Partnerships and Citizenship Dr. Elaine Enns and Ched Myers bel Reyes and Dr. Patrick Reyes Angelica Salas Network of Mutuality: Intersecting Justice Movements Food Justice Eating and Believing: Food Justice Eating and Believing: The Queer Souls of Black Folks Religion, Food Justice, and Cultural Religion, Food Justice, and Michael Roberson and Dr. Teresa Formation in Urban Life Cultural Formation in Urban Life Smallwood Part 1 of 2 Part 2 of 2 Dr. Heber Brown III and Dr. Heber Brown III and Dr. Derek Hicks Dr. Derek Hicks

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 19 Workshop Descriptions

Workshops • 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Soul Force: Nonviolent Direct Action Community Organizing TUESDAY: Personal Power: Nonviolent Direct Action Community Organizing This session will examine the historical and philosophical underpinnings of nonviolent direct action, and offer participants the opportunity to better understand nonviolent direct action as an embodied way of being. Space will be provided to discuss and examine contemporary movements in light of the practice of non-violence. Facilitated by Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr., leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence and key adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on nonviolent direct action strategies in the Civil Rights Movement. WEDNESDAY: Invisible No More: The Struggle for Voter Rights and Racial Equality The struggle for liberation is never ending. However, today many young liberationists see the struggle for voter rights as a struggle for partisan participation and not one for liberation and reparation. It is essential that the deep relationship between the struggle for voter rights and racial equality in the US be re-knitted. Join us as we discuss how voter suppression has moved into more subtle forms even as we see an unleashing of voter intimidation today and the importance of the restoration of rights movement in fighting modern day voter suppression. Facilitated by Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Founding Director of the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy (C-RRED) and the Program Coordinator for the Interfaith Organizing Initiative. THURSDAY: Beloved Community: Nonviolent Direct Action Community Organizing This workshop will focus on nonviolent direct action organizing, including the importance of relationship and community building as central to movement building. We are faced with extreme abuse of police power, growing income inequality, declining quality of public education, wealth and political power. This workshop will explore nonviolent direct action organizing that affirms the dignity, worth, and enormous unrealized potential of all, with an emphasis on those who are impoverished and most marginalized. These interactive sessions will draw on the experience of 50 years of movement building that involves neighborhoods, organized labor, churches, and other faith-based institutions, truth and reconciliation initiatives, and work with gang members. Facilitated by Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, and Joyce Hobson Johnson, Director of the Jubilee Institute of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro.

Education for Emancipation: From Sabbath Schools to Freedom Schools TUESDAY: CDF Freedom Schools® Program Come discover how you can host or involve your congregation or community in the CDF Freedom Schools® movement. Participants will gain an overview of the concept and vision behind this successful summer and after-school enrichment program for children ages 5-18. The CDF Freedom Schools program integrates reading, conflict resolution and social action in an activity-based curriculum that promotes social, cultural and historical awareness.

20 n Children’s Defense Fund Facilitated by Ella Baker Trainers; Tara Alexis McCoy, Director of Program and Training Initiatives, and Robin Sally, Director of Curriculum and Programs, CDF Freedom Schools. WEDNESDAY: From Sabbath Schools: Christian Education for Emancipation This workshop will demonstrate that “The purpose of Christian Education is to set people free: free to be children of God and free to be co-creators with God.” We will unpack this statement by first exploring the theological anthropology that undergirds it and demonstrate how it’s been engaged historically and presently through the Sabbath schools of the Reconstruction Era, the Freedom Schools conducted during the Summer of 1964, and the Freedom Schools as they are run today through the work of the Children’s Defense Fund, and finally explore why this approach to Christian Education is important. Facilitated by Dr. Reginald Blount, Assistant Professor of Formation, Youth, and Culture at Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary and Pastor of Arnett Chapel A.M.E. Church in Chicago, IL, and Dr. Virginia A. Lee, Associate Professor of Christian Education and Director of Deacon Studies, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary THURSDAY: Freedom Schools: Bringing the Model to Your Campus Considering bringing a Freedom School to your college or seminary campus? This workshop will explore the steps Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Wake Forest Divinity School took to bring a Freedom School to their campus and share lessons learned to assist other campuses expand the reach of Freedom Schools in their community. Specifically, we will walk through the experience of introducing the concept of Freedom Schools and gaining support for this program at Wake Forest University. The workshop will highlight efforts to get departmental “buy in,” how we introduced the concept to the university’s cabinet administration, finding campus space to house the Freedom School for six weeks, our efforts to partner with other Freedom Schools in our city, and securing internal (university) and external financial support. We will also explore how we targeted the children for our program. Facilitated by Dr. Reginald Blount, Assistant Professor of Formation, Youth, and Culture at Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary and Pastor of Arnett Chapel A.M.E. Church in Chicago, IL, Dr. Derek Hicks, Wake Forest University School of Divinity, professor and author of Reclaiming Spirit in the Black Faith Tradition; and Dr. Virginia A. Lee, Associate Professor of Christian Education and Director of Deacon Studies, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline TUESDAY: Challenging the Criminalization of Our Children and Communities How do we understand and challenge the constructions of Black bodies and Black female bodies as criminal and amoral? How do we disrupt and dismantle the Cradle to Prison Pipeline that is perpetuated by this criminalization? Vesely-Flad is a longtime activist in prison abolition and justice movements. Her work combines knowledge of movements across the country and insights gained through her personal journey. Facilitated by Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Founding Director of the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy (C-RRED) and the Program Coordinator for the Interfaith Organizing Initiative, and Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad. Director of Peace and Justice Studies at Warren Wilson College.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 21 WEDNESDAY: Reset the Heart: Unlearning Violence, Relearning Hope This interactive, participatory workshop will explore the role of church communities in perpetuating violence, including the cradle to prison pipeline, and the role of church communities in dismantling the prison pipeline. Mai-Ahn Le Tran, whose book provides the title for this workshop, asks, “What does it mean to teach for faith in such a time as this?” She is joined by Cadeem Gibbs, activist and animator who was criminalized at an early age and caged at Rikers and by Ndume Olatushani artist and organizer who was caged for 28 years, 20 on death row, for a crime he did not commit. Ndume often comments: “All those years church folk were coming in trying to save my soul. Hell, I didn’t need anyone to save my soul, I needed someone to save my ass.” Facilitated by Cadeem Gibbs, an activist and animator who was criminalized at an early age and caged at Rikers, Ndume Olatushani, artist, organizer, and Consultant to Children’s Defense Fund, and Dr. Mai-Anh Le Tran, the Associate Professor of Religious Education and Practical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. THURSDAY: Redefining Justice from the Inside Out This workshop is an invitation. We invite you to hear and explore. We will hear from those who have experienced firsthand the path from cradle to prison and explore with them what true partnership with those who are now or have been caged might look like in the struggle to disrupt the powers that hold the system of incarceration intact and dismantle the Cradle to Prison Pipeline. Facilitated by Rahim Buford, consultant to the CDF Nashville Organizing Team; Dr. Sarah Farmer, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Yale Divinity School, Ndume Olatushani, artist, organizer, and Consultant to Children’s Defense Fund, and Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Founding Director of the Center for Race, Religion, and Economic Democracy (C-RRED) and Program Coordinator for the Interfaith Organizing Initiative.

Prophetic Word TUESDAY: King in the Wilderness Documentary Screening Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s leadership during the bus boycotts, the sit-ins and the historic Selma- to-Montgomery marches is now legendary. Much of what happened afterward, during the last three years of his life, is rarely discussed, but it was a time when Dr. King said his dream “turned into a nightmare.” From the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, King remained unshakably committed to nonviolence in the face of an increasingly unstable country. Directed by Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. King’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible, Dr. King’s unyielding belief in peaceful protest became a testing point for a nation on the brink of chaos. Drawing on conversations with those who knew him well, including Marian Wright Edelman and many fellow members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in interviews conducted by Taylor Branch and Trey Ellis, King in the Wilderness reveals stirring new perspectives on Dr. King’s character, his radical doctrine of nonviolence and his internal philosophical struggles prior to his assassination in 1968. King in the Wilderness is a co-production of HBO and Kunhardt Films and first aired on HBO on April 2, 2018, two days before the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s

22 n Children’s Defense Fund assassination. Participants who attend the documentary screening on Tuesday from 2:00-4:00 p.m. are encouraged to register for the 4:15 p.m. “Continuing the Conversation with Taylor Branch” late afternoon option for discussion, with Taylor Branch, of the film and what it means for our movement- building work. WEDNESDAY: Public Theology and Racial Justice This workshop will explore the ways in which theology deployed in the public sphere can work as a catalyst for the eradication of racial injustice. As communities of faith are pressed to narrate a response to the rise in vitriol and clamor in the face of resurgent white nationalism, neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, hate, and violence against many racial and ethnic minorities, the question of justice for these marginalized communities requires a commitment to a meta-narrative which reaches across the pluralities of faiths in the North American context and beyond to form solidarity, meaning, and solutions. Facilitated by Rev. Jennifer Bailey, Founding Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network and Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood, Esq., Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative at Vanderbilt Divinity School. THURSDAY: Preaching for Social Change When Jesus told the disciples to go and make disciples of all nations, what did he really mean? This workshop will give you the courage to preach, teach and lead with a commitment to nonviolence and social transformation. Facilitated by Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., Proctor Co-Pastor-in-Residence, civil rights activist, former co-pastor with Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., and senior pastor emeritus of Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland.

50 Years of Progress: Where’s We’ve Been, Where We Are and What’s Next TUESDAY: Closing the Opportunity Gap: Improving the Odds for Children in Poverty Nearly 1 in 5 children – more than 13.2 million – are poor in the United States. Nearly 70 percent of poor children are children of color. Children of color will be a majority of children in 2020. This session will highlight CDF’s longstanding commitment to improving the odds for children in poverty, gains made over the past 50 years, and CDF’s forthcoming campaign to End Child Poverty. You will learn about the harms facing children in poverty, its far reaching costs, and federal, state and local strategies to end child poverty. You will also be encouraged to share promising strategies used in your own communities and congregations to reduce child poverty. Facilitated by MaryLee Allen, Director of Policy, Children’s Defense Fund, and Austin Sowa, Policy Assistant to the President, CDF. WEDNESDAY: Giving Every Child an Early Start: Expanding Early Learning and Development Opportunities The younger children are the poorer they are. Nearly 1 in 5 children under 6 are poor during their early years of critical brain development. This session will review how a full continuum of high quality early childhood opportunities can buffer the negative impacts of poverty. You will learn about CDF-Minnesota’s successful efforts in that state to offer early childhood learning and

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 23 development opportunities to 30,000 children. The state’s Child Care Assistance Program is a critical investment in children and in the workforce. You will also learn how you can take action to support babies and toddlers and join ZERO TO THREE’s Campaign to Be a Big Voice for Little Kids™ for children separated from their parents at the border. ZERO TO THREE works to ensure babies and toddlers benefit from family and community connections critical to their well- being and development. Share your own early childhood advocacy efforts and learn how other faith communities are supporting young children and their families. Facilitated by Bharti Wahi, Director, CDF-Minnesota, and Daniel Hains, Advocacy Specialist, ZERO TO THREE. THURSDAY: Health Care for Every Child: Healing Our Broken System Poor children and children of color have worse access to health and mental health care and worse health outcomes. This session will review these connections between health and poverty, and how far our nation has come over the last 50 years in expanding health coverage to children, touching on current political risks and opportunities for advocates. You will also hear about innovative approaches that connect “change philanthropy”, communities of color and policy makers focused on reducing health disparities through policy and system change. The Sierra Health Foundation will present collective action strategies on race and health equity leadership rooted in the belief that all our children matter, and that society has a responsibility to ensure the health and well-being of our most vulnerable populations. ​You will learn how vulnerable communities can advocate for policy change at the local, state, and national levels to maximize child health. Facilitated by Kindra F. Montgomery Block, Senior Program Officer with the Sierra Health Foundation Center, Dr. Alison Buist, CDF National Director of Child Health, and Chet P. Hewitt, President and CEO of Sierra Health Foundation and its nonprofit intermediary, The Center.

White Supremacy, Trauma and Healing TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: (Re)membering Racial Terror: On Congregating, Storytelling and Healing In this workshop participants will engage in group activities and dialogues that invite reflection about a community practice that honors inclusion and the right and obligation to improve our lives, communities and society in general. The group will discuss concepts such as community engagement with a strength- based approach, how to increase community participation, and the dominant paradigm as a model for exclusion, power and privilege. In addition participants will become familiar with the community worker model and the 18 core competencies that Latino Health Access considers to be key for an effective community practice rooted in principles of inclusion, justice, equity, strengths, hope and solidarity. Facilitated by Mauricio Tafur Salgado, Co-founder of Artists Striving To End Poverty and Co-creative Producer of Remember2019, and Arielle Julia Brown, Co-creative Producer of Remember2019. THURSDAY: Dismantling Racism The Church has played a significant role in establishing racism as an acceptable practice both in the US and globally. This has been true historically with mainline churches providing biblical justification for slavery, colonialism and apartheid. It continues to be true today with many churches remaining silent in the face of structural racism represented by police brutality or the cradle to

24 n Children’s Defense Fund prison pipeline. This workshop is focused on how the Church and church-people can become active participants in the struggle to end racism. The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown-Douglas and the Rev. Naomi Tutu will lead participants in discussions and activities to enable them to go home and help their churches become places actively working to dismantle racism, especially in the US. Facilitated by Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu, speaker, preacher, and founder of Nozizwe Consulting.

Dreamers: Building Bridges, Dismantling Walls TUESDAY: Creating Responsive Communities of Care through Innovative Partnerships This session will focus on the critical need to bridge innovative community partnerships that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable “at-risk” youth. We address the social challenges youth encounter and address how to build an emotionally safe environment that marginalized youth need for healing. Recognizing that youth are part of families and neighborhoods that significantly influence their behaviors and choices, participants will engage in collective dialogue around establishing a community of care at the individual, family and faith, community, and societal levels. Facilitated by Dr. Patrick Reyes, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Forum for Theological Exploration and bel Reyes, Executive Director, Innovation Bridge WEDNESDAY: Immigrant Youth and Family Organizing for Full Inclusion and Citizenship This workshop will describe CHIRLA’s organizing strategies and share its history of organizing a powerful immigrant rights movement based on the vision and love of immigrant youth and families. Participants will take away a better understanding of the modern immigrant rights movement and learn about pivotal moments. They will also learn about the power of organizing immigrant youth and families and learn strategies that make this organizing successful. Finally participants will become aware of the challenges currently facing immigrants and their families and active campaigns to defend human and civil rights. Facilitated by Angelica Salas, Executive Director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA). THURSDAY: Bloodlines, Landlines and Songlines: Journey Out of Whiteness A workshop for white folks at Proctor, to discuss what solidarity requires of us. Audre Lorde challenges us to “do our own work” to name, engage and heal disparities. We’ll explore how to deconstruct fictive white identities spawned by the dominant culture, and reconstruct more complex personal and political stories. For example, we too were once immigrants: from where, how, and why? How can revisiting our family stories generate empathy and solidarity with newer immigrants? What did/do we walk with into our settled places (privilege and complicity in colonization? Alienation from displacement, cultural dispossession and trauma?) How can we be responsible to the places we walk(ed) into—their peoples, cultures and struggles for dignity? Facilitated by Dr. Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, Co-Directors of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 25 Network of Mutuality: Intersecting Justice Movements TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: Food Justice Eating and Believing: Religion, Food Justice, and Cultural Formation in Urban Life This 2-day workshop will consider religious, historical, ethical and culturally centered ways to positively impact communities through the valuing of their religious and culinary cultures. We will give attention to community traditions and resources as the two-part workshop aims to 1) articulate the rich history and culture related to the ways food and faith converge in African American life and, 2) identify the opportunities churches have to improve their own communities by tapping the cultural resources, stories, organizing strategies, and social capital within their proximities. The workshop will begin with a cultural history of food and faith in African American life. Through an introduction of the concept of “religio-gastro diplomacy,” we will move toward a deep reckoning with the wondrous and complex history of religion and food for a people and communities struggling for human dignity. Here we will survey the vibrant traditions of black agency, even as far back as during enslavement, that undergird contemporary notions of food and religious sovereignty available to communities of color. The next phase will be to assess the on-the-ground work of ensuring food security in these communities through the efforts of the church. We will study the work Rev. Heber Brown is doing in Baltimore to specifically bring churches together around this issue through the Black Church Food Security Network, which links Black Churches and Black Farmers in partnership to create a community- controlled, alternative food system based on self-sufficiency and food and land sovereignty. Facilitated by Dr. Derek S. Hicks, Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and Dr. Heber M. Brown, III, Senior Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. THURSDAY: The Queer Souls of Black Folks From youth through adulthood, transgender, lesbian, bisexual, and gay African-Americans must overcome complex challenges to establish and secure welcoming and nourishing communities. This workshop will explore the history of the House|Ballroom community as a Black Trans-Womanist theological discourse, a freedom movement, and its spiritual formation responses to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression. We will examine the religious community’s ability to use the art of performance as a hermeneutics of the body and situate its history in mobilizing a resistance to the oppressions faced by marginalized people of society. We will explore the multifaceted ways in which marginalized communities find self-sustaining social networks and cultural groups such as the House|Ballroom community, a Black/Latino LGBT artistic collective and intentional kinship system, to stymie the burden of stigma, violence, housing insecurity, and health challenges. Facilitated by Michael Roberson, public health practitioner, activist, and leader within the LGBTQ community who created The Federation of Ballroom Houses and co-created the National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Group and Dr. Teresa L. Smallwood, Esq. Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Director of the Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative at Vanderbilt Divinity School.

26 n Children’s Defense Fund Late Afternoon-at-a-Glance 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Music for Our Movement Choir Rehearsal Choir Rehearsal Choir Rehearsal 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Dr. Eli Wilson, Jr. and Don Lewis Dr. Eli Wilson, Jr. and Don Lewis Dr. Eli Wilson, Jr. and Don Lewis All are welcome! All are welcome! All are welcome!

Building the Movement – Dance!

Building the Movement - Dance! Building the Movement - Dance! Building the Movement - Dance! Rossi Turner Rossi Turner Rossi Turner Arts, Culture, and Social Change Arts, Culture, and Social Change Arts, Culture, and Social Change Arts, Culture, and Social Change Omari Booker, Rev. Damien Durr, Omari Booker, Rev. Damien Durr, Omari Booker, Rev. Damien Durr, Dr. Brendon McCormack, and Dr. Brendon McCormack, and Dr. Brendon McCormack, and Ndume Olatushani Ndume Olatushani Ndume Olatushani Telling Our Stories of Communities in Crisis Telling Our Stories Telling Our Stories Telling Our Stories Dr. Patrick Reyes and Brian Barnes Dr. Patrick Reyes and Brian Barnes Dr. Patrick Reyes and Brian Barnes Continuing the Conversation with... Taylor Branch Ash-Lee Henderson and Jamila Raqib Dolores Huerta and Saira Soto

Intergenerational Conversation

Intergenerational Conversation Intergenerational Conversation Intergenerational Conversation Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson Johnson Johnson Facing Trauma: Practices for Healing and Resilience (Tuesday and Thursday) Facing Trauma: Practices for Facing Trauma: Practices for Healing and Resilience Healing and Resilience Dr. Elaine Enns and Dr. Mauricio Dr. Elaine Enns Salgado To Make a Rest of Motion: Safe Space for Reflections on the Day To Make a Rest of Motion: Safe To Make a Rest of Motion: Safe To Make a Rest of Motion: Safe Space for Reflections on the Day Space for Reflections on the Day Space for Reflections on the Day Rev. Will C. Gipson, Rev. Dr. Emma Rev. Will C. Gipson, Rev. Dr. Emma Rev. Will C. Gipson, Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan Simpson and Dr. Theresa Jordan Simpson and Dr. Theresa Jordan Simpson and Dr. Theresa Thames, Rev. Dr. Frederick J. (Jerry) Thames, Rev. Dr. Frederick J. (Jerry) Thames, Rev. Dr. Frederick J. (Jerry) Streets and Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames Streets and Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames Streets and Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames Families, Communities, Congregations: Partners for Change

Keeping Children Safely Documentary Screening: Dolores Organizing a Children’s Sabbath as a With Families Catalyst for Change MaryLee Allen Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris Rest and Relaxation Shuttles to hotels: 4:15 p.m. Shuttles to hotels: 4:15 p.m. Shuttles to hotels: 4:15 p.m.

Shuttles back to Farm: Shuttles back to Farm: Shuttles back to Farm: 5:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. 5:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. 5:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 27 Late Afternoon Options

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)

Resurrection Choir (5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) All are welcome to participate in the Resurrection Choir under the direction of Dr. Eli Wilson, Proctor’s Minister of Music, with Don Lewis, Proctor’s organist. Rehearsals are held in the Lodge each evening. The choir sings at the evening Great Preacher Series worship and Morning Devotions. It is never too late to join in, so if you are inspired by the choir on the first night, join for the next!

Building the Movement: Dance! Dance, song and theater will be used as a form of edutainment. Participants will be engaged in a multilevel experience of liberation arts. All ages welcome. Facilitated by Rossi Turner, critically-acclaimed performer, educator, mentor and owner of Rossi on World Safari. Arts, Culture, and Social Change Join in these participatory sessions to think together about how we can use art to challenge all aspects of the criminal justice system, highlighting the injustices of mass incarceration and the possibilities for change. Ages 12 and up welcome to come explore with us. Facilitated by Omari Booker, Nashville Studio Artist; Rev. Damien Durr, Executive Pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and former CDF Nashville Organizing Team member; Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville; and Ndume Olatushani, artist, organizer, and Consultant to Children’s Defense Fund.

Telling Our Stories of Communities in Crisis How do we tell the stories of our communities that are constantly under threat? How do we recover the lost histories of ancestors? How do we share the good news of our communities, when society only relates violence, poverty, and suffering? This workshop provides strategies for telling our narratives in life-giving ways and in and through the community. We will offer practices for reclaiming our lives and narratives for the purpose of healing our communities and enacting social change. Facilitated by Dr. Patrick Reyes, Director of Strategic Partnerships for Doctoral Initiatives at the Forum for Theological Exploration, and Brian Barnes, Co-Founder and CEO of TandemEd Continuing the Conversation In these sessions, participants will have the opportunity to engage in conversation with some of the speakers from the morning Children and Justice plenaries in a smaller, more informal and interactive setting. This will be a time to go deeper into topics that were raised in the morning plenary session and to raise questions, relate experiences, or share thoughts that were raised by the plenary. Tuesday: Taylor Branch, historian and author of America in the King Years trilogy Wednesday: Jamila Raqib, Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Executive Director of the Highland Education and Research Center Thursday: Dolores Huerta, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, and Saira Soto, Deputy Executive Director of CDF-California

28 n Children’s Defense Fund Intergenerational Conversation Come join in this time of informal, intergenerational listening and learning from each other, facilitated by leaders of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro. Facilitated by Rev. Nelson N. Johnson, Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, and Joyce Hobson Johnson, Director of the Jubilee Institute of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro. Facing Trauma: Practices for Healing and Resilience (Tuesday and Thursday) This workshop will briefly look at how trauma (both experienced and inherited) impacts body and soul. The majority of time will be spent on learning various simple but effective somatic practices of healing and resilience including breathwork, body sculpting, body movement, finger holds, emotional freedom tapping, etc. Participants will also be invited to share their strategies for restoration. There will be time for discussion and questions throughout. Facilitated by Dr. Elaine Enns, Co-Director of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries and, on Tuesday, by Mauricio Salgado. To Make a Rest of Motion: Safe Space for Reflections on the Day In his meditation “To Make a Rest of Motion,” Howard Thurman wrote, “It is ever a grace and a benediction to be able to come to a halt, to stop, to pause, to make a rest of motion. Thus we are privileged to turn aside from the things that occupy and preoccupy our minds in the daily round, to take a long intimate look at ourselves both in retrospect and prospect….” Each day at CDF’s Proctor Institute is full—full of emotions and insights, full of ideas and information, full of challenge and opportunity, community and commitment. By afternoon, we have heard, seen, and felt things that touch different and deep places in our hearts and minds. You are invited into this time and safe space to “make a rest of motion” and reflect with others on what the day has stirred in you. Join Proctor’s Co-Chaplains in Residence for this time of conversation and contemplation. All ages are welcome. Facilitated by Proctor Co-Chaplains-in-Residence: Rev. Will C. Gipson, Vice Provost for Equity and Access, University of Pennsylvania; Rev. Dr. Emma Jordan Simpson, Executive Pastor, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn; Rev. Dr. Frederick J. (Jerry) Streets, Senior Pastor of Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ, New Haven; and Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames, Associate Dean of Religious Life and of the Chapel, Princeton University. Keeping Children Safely With Families (offered Tuesday only) Join us to discuss new opportunities available in your states to keep children safely with their families and out of foster care, or, when foster care is necessary, to keep children safely with quality foster parents. The Family First Prevention Services Act, which became law in February 2018, offers historic reforms to ensure funds are available for mental health and substance use prevention and treatment services and in home parenting skills programs to keep children from entering foster care. Federal dollars are now available for preventive services, not just foster care. And CHAMPS, a national campaign, complements Families First by helping state agencies ensure bright futures for those children who do need foster care by promoting foster parent retention through increased supports for foster parents. Learn more about both and how they can help children in your communities and states. Facilitated by MaryLee Allen, Director of Policy, Children’s Defense Fund.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 29 Documentary Screening: Dolores (offered Wednesday only) Come for a screening of the recent award-winning documentary “Dolores” about Dolores Huerta (Thursday Children and Justice Plenary Speaker) aired on PBS and summarized here: “History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. But missing from this story is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century. Like so many powerful female advocates, Dolores and her sweeping reforms were – and still are – largely overlooked. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her own relentless work ethic was constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior from a woman who married three times and raised 11 children, didn’t dampen her passion or deter her from her personal mission. She remains as steadfast in her fight as ever at the age of 87. Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary challenges this incomplete, one-sided history and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to the fight for justice. Interweaving archival footage with interviews from Dolores and her contemporaries, the film sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history.” Organizing a Children’s Sabbath as a Catalyst for Change (offered Thursday only) Learn how you can engage your congregation in the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths celebration, a nation-wide multifaith weekend of worship, education, and action to generate year- round change for children. This will be an interactive workshop generating practical planning strategies and creative ideas for worship, education, outreach and advocacy that you can take back to your congregation and community to engage them in the 2018 Children’s Sabbath. Facilitated by the Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, CDF Senior Religious Adviser and Proctor Institute Director.

Photo © Theresa S. Thames

30 n Children’s Defense Fund Early Morning Option

Meditations for the Journey Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Langston Hughes Library

Those who advocate for the well-being of our nation’s children and youths do so in a number of ways and in a variety of contexts. The demands placed upon those who are advocates for children and youths can sometimes be stressful.

The purpose of the journey group is to provide an opportunity for participants to reflect upon the nature of their work for children, enhance their perspective on the work they do, and give some attention to their own emotional and spiritual needs as advocates for children and youths. Members will be encouraged, in a confidential group setting, to identify and explore some aspects of who they are and what they derive from and bring to their work for children. Check the Shuttle Bus Schedule for information about early buses to transport participants to Meditations for the Journey.

Facilitated by Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Proctor Co-Chaplain-in-Residence, Senior Pastor of Dixwell Avenue Congregational UCC in New Haven, CT and Adjunct Professor at Yale University Divinity School and the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Late Night Option

Open Mic and Intergenerational Conversation Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 8:45 – 10 p.m. Chapel

While some head to their hotels after the evening Great Preacher Series concludes at 8:45 p.m., others are energized by the day and brimming with something to share, to say, to sing. Proctor’s Late Night Open Mic is a time and place to share those gifts with others!

Check the Shuttle Bus Schedule for information about late buses to transport participants back to hotels at the conclusion of the Late Night Open Mic and Intergenerational Conversation.

Facilitated by Rev. Damien Durr, Executive Pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and former CDF Nashville Organizing Team member, and Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 31 Proctor Institute Publications Tables

Monday Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Friday 12:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. 7:00 – 7:30 p.m “ PopUp” Bookstore at Chapel

The Publications Tent will be closed during all sessions. Author Book Signings

Authors will sign books from 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. in the Publications Tables area in the Main Tent. Their books are available for purchase. Please allow sufficient time to purchase before the signing. Tuesday Taylor Branch: The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement; At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris: Hope for the Future: Answering God’s Call to Justice for Our Children (Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman); Our Day to End Poverty: 24 Ways You Can Make A Difference; and Preaching God’s Transforming Justice: A Lectionary Commentary (contributor) Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman: Guide My Feet: Prayers and Meditations on Loving and Working for Children; I’m Your Child, God: Prayers for Our Children; Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors; The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and other titles Dr. Yolanda Pierce: Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antibellum Spiritual Narrative Wednesday Dr. Sarah Azaransky: This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes: Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality Dr. Otis Moss Jr.: Preach! The Power and Purpose Behind Our Praise (with Dr. Otis Moss, III) Dr. Otis Moss III: Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair, Preach! The Power and Purpose Behind Our Praise (with Dr. Otis Moss, Jr.), and The Gospel According to The Wiz: And Other Sermons from Cinema Dr. Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: Our God Is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice; Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volumes I and II; The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics; Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus; and other titles.

Dr. Rodney Sadler: The Genesis of Liberation

32 n Children’s Defense Fund Thursday Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God; What’s Faith Got to Do with It? Black Bodies/ Christian Souls; Sexuality and the Black Church; The Black Christ; The Black Body and the Black Church: A Blues Start Dr. Greg Ellison II: Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men, Fearless Dialogues: A New Movement for Justice Dr. Sarah Farmer: Raising Hope: 4 Paths to Courageous Living for Black Youth Rev. Cindy Jarvis: Feasting on the Gospels Dr. Mai Anh Le Tran: Reset the Heart:Unlearning Violence: Relearning Hope; Leading Wisdom: Asian and Asian North American Women Leaders; and Educating for Redemptive Community: Essays in Honor of Jack Seymore and Margaret Ann Crain Don Lewis: CDs – It Is Well with My Soul; Meditations; and Gates to the City. DVD – Don Lewis Vocal and Ensemble Keyboard Sings… Dr. Pamela Lightsey: Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology Dr. Eileen W. Lindner: Thus Far on the Way: Toward a Theology of Child Advocacy Dr. Patrick Reyes: Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community, and Surviving to Adulthood Dr. Eli Wilson: CDs – In My Quiet Time; Pure and Simple; For His Glory; Introducing… Eli Wilson; Conversations with God; and The Thoughts of My Heart

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 33 Taking Action at Proctor: The 2018 Action Center

t the Proctor Institute we don’t just talk about justice, we work toward it. The Action Center, Alocated next to registation in the Main Tent, is a place where you can act on the urgent needs our children face, apply pressure to our leaders to do the right thing, and build support back home among your friends, family, and congregation to join your efforts. Daily Action Each day, there will be a new action to take to make a difference. Our actions this week will focus on childhood hunger, mending the safety net that protects children from some of the harmful effects of poverty, highlighting the importance of registering to vote and voting for (and with) our children, and protesting harmful immigration policies that separate children from their parents. The Action Center will be open for action each day after the Children and Justice Plenary before lunch and for half an hour each evening before the Great Preacher Series. The Action Center will be equipped with computers to use for the requested action. Volunteers will be available to assist you on the day’s action and to provide you with additional resources so you are fully prepared to take the message back home. Action Center volunteers will also be identifiable throughout the day and eager to help you. Connecting with Others to Spread the Impact Throughout the week, as we take action CDF will also be inviting Proctor alumni and other child advocates back home to join in, extending the reach and impact of our actions. Another way to amplify the messages and impact of our justice work at CDF’s Proctor Institute is through social media. As you tweet, post and blog throughout the week, please use #CDFProctorInstitute and mention @ChildDefender. As Marian Wrigth Edelman reminds us, “We won’t go back and will work together in every possible way to move forward to remove stumbling blocks and make the road easier for all children and we’ll never give up.

Taking Action After Proctor: CDF Child Defender Fellowship

Each year the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) offers the Child Defender Fellowship as an opportunity for community members and local leaders to learn tools and tactics to strengthen their communities and ensure all of America’s children have equal opportunities.

Fellows will gain critical knowledge on policy and legislation affecting children, learn about the history and tactics of nonviolent organizing, and practice using these tools in their communities. The Fellowship will meet in a virtual learning space over the course of nine months in approximately 20 sessions covering six core themes. Training and supervision will be provided by experienced community organizers and CDF staff members in Washington D.C.

To apply go to www.childrensdefense.org/fellowship

34 n Children’s Defense Fund Taking Action After Proctor: The 2018 National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® Weekend October 19-21

he National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® weekend raises a powerful, diverse multifaith voice T for children spanning our nation and crossing all lines of income, race, ethnicity and political party, united by the belief that God calls us to love and protect children, especially those who are poorest and most vulnerable, and the conviction that faith calls us to live out God’s justice and compassion. Celebrated the third weekend of each October, the National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths engages hundreds of thousands of people of faith in worship services, education programs, caring action and justice-seeking advocacy that focus attention on the urgent plight of children in our nation and put our faith into action to meet children’s needs through direct service and work for justice throughout the year. Joining together in the 2018 National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths weekend is one way to unite our efforts to end child poverty, amplify our voices as we call for justice, and proclaim in word and action that there is hope for our future when we work for justice and care for every child. Elements of a Children’s Sabbath: A Children’s Sabbath weekend typically has four elements: 1) A service of worship or prayers, during which the divine mandate to nurture and protect children calls us to respond to the needs of children today; 2) Educational programs, during which people of all ages learn more about the needs of children today and the sociopolitical structures that keep children in need, explore the sacred texts, teaching and traditions that lead us to serve and seek justice for children, and develop specific, active responses to help children; 3) Activities that immediately engage participants in compassionate service to help children and in action to seek justice (such as writing letters to elected officials); and 4) Follow-up actions that use the inspiration, information and motivation of the Children’s Sabbath weekend to lead individual members and places of worship as a whole into new, effective efforts to improve the lives of children in the community and nation. Planning for One Place of Worship or with Others: Some places of worship plan services, educational sessions, and activities for their own place of worship. Others join with one or more places of worship in shared services and activities. In some communities all of the faith communities work together to sponsor a multifaith service to which the entire community is invited. Often, local organizations serving children or working on their behalf join in the planning of these community-wide multifaith Children’s Sabbaths. Children’s Sabbath Resource Materials: CDF provides free, downloadable Children’s Sabbath resource materials each year with planning suggestions, promotion ideas, worship resources, educational resources, activity ideas and suggestions for building on your Children’s Sabbath to help children throughout the year. Download them from www.childrensdefense.org/childrenssabbaths. Plan to Participate This Year! The Children’s Sabbath is an opportunity to affirm what we already do and at the same time deepen our understanding both of God’s call and the current crises facing children so that we may more fully, persistently, effectively and faithfully live out that calling not only on the Children’s Sabbath weekend but throughout the year. There is an extraordinary power in participating in the Children’s Sabbath, knowing that all across the country, in places of worship of many different faiths, we are united in our concern for children and in our commitment to respond. Plan to participate now, and let us know how you will celebrate. Learn more about how you can engage your congregation and community in Children’s Sabbath as a catalyst for change in the late afternoon session on Thursday from 4:15 – 6:15 p.m. facilitated by Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris.

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 35 About the CDF Freedom Schools® Program

he CDF Freedom Schools® program provides summer and after-school enrichment to close Tthe racial and economic achievement gaps. It has five basic components: an integrated literacy curriculum, parent involvement, child service and civic engagement, intergenerational leadership development, and nutrition, health and mental health supports. Our partners include community- based organizations, faith institutions, public schools, colleges, universities, homeless shelters and juvenile detention centers. Freedom Schools are child-centered programs that boost student capacity and motivation to read and connect the needs of children and families to resources in their communities.

The CDF Freedom Schools model incorporates the totality of the Children’s Defense Fund’s mission by fostering environments that support children and young adults to excel and believe in their ability to make a difference in themselves and in their families, schools, communities, nation, and world. College-age young adults are trained as servant leader interns to deliver the Integrated Reading Curriculum (IRC) and adults are trained as site coordinators and project directors to provide supervision and administrative oversight.

Since 1995, more than 149,000 children have had the CDF Freedom Schools program experience and more than 17,000 college students and site coordinators and project directors have been trained to deliver this empowering model.

In June, CDF trained nearly 2,000 college age youths to deliver the wonderful CDF Freedom Schools curriculum this summer to more than 12,000 pre-K through 12th grade children in 26 states and the District of Columbia with energy and enthusiasm, and a determination to make learning fun. Visit www.freedomschools.org to learn more.

To learn how you and your faith community can volunteer at or sponsor a CDF Freedom Schools program for low-income children in your community, attend the CDF Freedom Schools workshop on Tuesday from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. led by CDF Freedom Schools staff and Ella Baker Trainers. Additional workshops on Freedom Schools are offered in the Education for Emancipation: From Sabbath Schools to Freedom Schools track on Wednesday and Thursday from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

36 n Children’s Defense Fund About The CDF Proctor Institute CDF Freedom Schools® Program

hildren ages five through 15 who have pre-registered will participate in the abbreviated CDF C Freedom Schools® program during the three full days of the 24th Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry. Location, Days and Hours The Proctor CDF Freedom Schools program held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday begins at 8:45 a.m. and concludes at 4:00 p.m. The children will meet in the Lodge in the morning from 8:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and then join their parents or other caregivers for lunch. After lunch, the Freedom School will resume at 1:45 p.m. with a variety of field trips and other activities. After the Proctor CDF Freedom Schools program ends at 4:00 p.m., children are invited and encouraged to accompany their parents or caregivers to several of the late afternoon options (see p. 28) and evening worship. The children will be part of the leadership of the Friday morning Closing Charge and Celebration of Communion and Commitment. They will sign in for Freedom Schools as usual at 8:45 a.m. and meet until the closing Charge at which time they will rejoin the rest of the Proctor community in the Chapel until the institute’s conclusion. Sign-in and Sign-out Parents or other caregivers should sign in their children at the Chapel in the morning between 8:30 and 8:45 a.m. They should sign in and sign out their children at the registration table before and after lunch and at the end of each day. Please use the sign-in and sign-out sheet each time to help leaders track arrivals and departures. Prompt sign-out by 4:15 p.m. each afternoon is greatly appreciated Staying Cool The CDF Freedom Schools program will include outdoor activities and play. Water will be available to the children throughout the day so they can stay hydrated. Please be sure your child has the proper sunscreen, hat and clothing for the weather. The children may have the opportunity to play in the sprinkler or enjoy other water fun, so please send them with a bathing suit and towel or an extra set of clothes each day. Leadership Tara Alexis McCoy, M.Ed., Director of Program and Training Initiatives for CDF Freedom Schools® and Robin Sally, CDF Freedom Schools Director of Curriculum and Programs, provide overall coordination of the Proctor CDF Freedom Schools program. The Proctor Institute CDF Freedom Schools program is led by Ella Baker Trainers (EBTs), who are an extension to the national staff and aid in the successful implementation of the CDF Freedom Schools program. EBTs help to facilitate training, especially on the Integrated Reading Curriculum, to Executive and Project Directors, Site Coordinators and college-aged Servant Leader Interns. The awesome 2018 Proctor CDF Freedom Schools EBTs are: Evan Dentley, Arsenio Ward, Jessikha Williams, Tarkor Zehn, Sharde Chapman, Claricha Evans, and Mindy Chappell. Your children will be in caring and capable hands for these rich and fun-filled days.

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38 n Children’s Defense Fund CDF Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry: Graduate Intensive “Mobilizing for Justice: Advocacy Ministry with Children and Youth”

ith the leadership of Dr. Janet Wolf, CDF in partnership with a consortium of more than W20 seminaries offers an intensive credit-bearing course for seminary or divinity/theological school students who seek to listen to and learn from and with communities on the margins of theological education — in particular, those communities contending against systemic injustices that directly impact children and youth. The CDF Proctor immersion experience provides an alternative space to study justice ministries and challenge Biblical and theological assumptions justifying institutional complicity with oppressive systems that create insular maintenance of churches effectively disconnected from people on the margins. Students examine the present nature of theological education and consider pressing questions regarding public theology and contextual practice. The course underscores partnerships with local communities and collaboration with those who are engaged directly in the struggles for social justice. In addition to reading and discussion during CDF’s Proctor Institute, students must listen to and learn from children and youths in their communities as they develop a final action plan and strategy and then complete the project with an emphasis on partnering with those struggling with oppression, addressing systemic, structural oppression and engaging in justice rather than charity. The learning aim is to reframe and transform religious leadership in view of the sacrality and integrity of youth in our commitments to justice making — that is: 1) To build our understanding of the range of child advocacy and to articulate theological, biblical and historical mandates for child advocacy ministries; 2) To explore the theological foundations for justice and preaching ministries in the effort to build partnerships among faith communities and traditions, including with interfaith communities; 3) To cultivate contextualized teaching and learning that includes social analysis and interdisciplinary approaches involving theological, biblical, historical, political, and experiential studies, and practices of ministry (e.g. black preaching, pastoral and prophetic care ministries); and 4) To introduce to students a range of nonviolent direct action organizing principles and to equip students with organizing models for collective action in congregational praxis and public theology. 2018 Faculty Teaching Team: Dr. Reginald Blount, Assistant Professor of Formation, Youth and Culture, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Pastor of Amett Chapel AME Church, Chicago; Dr. Derek Hicks, Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, Wake Forest University School of Divinity, and author, Reclaiming Spirit in the Black Faith Tradition; Dr. Virginia Lee, Associate Professor of Christian Education and Director of Deacon Studies, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Dr. Rodney Sadler (see page 18); Dr. Teresa Smallwood, Associate Director, Vanderbilt Divinity School Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative; and Dr. Janet L. Wolf (see p.13). 2018 Faculty Co-facilitators: Dr. Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt Divinity School; Professor of the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies, ; author, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience; Dr. Carmichael Crutchfield, Associate Professor of Christian Education, Spiritual Formation, and Youth Ministry and Associate Director of Methodist House of Studies, Memphis Theological Seminary; Dr. Sarah Farmer, Adolescent Faith and Flourishing Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale Divinity School;

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 39 Dr. Greg Ellison II (see page 14); Dr. Elaine Enns, adjunct professor at St. Andrews College, and co-founder of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, co-author, with Ched Meyers of Ambassadors of Reconciliation: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking; Dr. Mary Love, Adjunct Professor of Christian Education, Hood Theological Seminary, author of Learning through Symbolism and Celebration, An Annotated Bibliography of Afrocentric Resources; Ched Myers, activist theologian, popular educator, author of many books, including Sabbath Economics and Binding the Strong Man; partner in Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries; Dr. Lorena Parrish, Dirk Romeyn Professor of Metro-Urban Ministry and Director of the D.Min. program and the Masters of Arts in Ministry and Community Leadership program, New Brunswick Theological Seminary; Dr. Patrick Reyes (see page 17), and Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Union Theological Seminary, and Founding Director of the Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy.

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“There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place…”

n 1994, CDF bought the former Alex Haley Farm to be a center for spiritual renewal; I character and leadership development; intergenerational mentoring; and interracial, interfaith and interdisciplinary movement building. Since then, thousands of leaders across all lines of race, ethnicity, age, income and religion have attended Haley training and networking seminars, including more than 17,000 college-age students and Site Coordinators who have prepared to teach in summer CDF Freedom Schools® programs. In the 24 years since Marian Wright Edelman and a few others spent the first night in sleeping bags in empty cabins, CDF Haley Farm has emerged as a unique center of hospitality and the only place graced by two Maya Lin-designed buildings— the Langston Hughes Library and the Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel.

Building on CDF’s long-standing collaboration with the religious community, in 1995 Marian Wright Edelman and Director of Religious Affairs Shannon Daley-Harris launched the first Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry to provide spiritual renewal, networking, continuing education and skills-building workshops for ministers, educators, seminarians and lay people. The Institute sought to fill the gap in the preparation for ministry by providing solid, up-to-date information about children’s needs, strengthening advocacy skills, promoting replicable model programs for children and families, and exploring theology and the Bible as they relate to children, poor families and justice. Together, participants deepen and prepare to live out their understanding of what it means to fulfill God’s calling to nurture, protect and seek justice for children. A central element of the Institute is the Great Preachers Series, which from its inception has featured incomparable preaching of some of the nation’s greatest preachers.

The Institute’s first faculty members in residence were The Rev. Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the Institute’s first Pastor-in-Residence, and The Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner, the Institute’s Theologian-in-Residence. The long-standing Faculty-in-Residence has included the late Rev. Dr. Fred Craddock, The Rev. Will Gipson, the late Dr. , The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr., The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III and The Rev. Dr. Frederick J. Streets. Dr. Eli Wilson is the Institute’s Minister of Music and Dr. Don Lewis is the Institute’s organist. The Institute’s faculty in residence has been an essential part of this Beloved Community over the years, generously sharing their guidance, wisdom, experience, pastoral care and inspiration. From the Institute’s early years until today, the sweet spirit of this place has revived those who have worked long and faithfully for children as they sing and pray, learn and share, find new friends and colleagues, break bread together and are replenished for the challenging work of child advocacy ministry.

“Without a doubt, we’ll know that we have been revived when we shall leave this place.”

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 41 Reverend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor

Those of us who have inherited benefits we did not earn or deserve must help those who have inherited deficits they did not earn or deserve to learn and earn what we take for granted.

— The Reverend Dr. Samuel Proctor

r. Samuel DeWitt Proctor was the first Pastor-in-Residence for the CDF Institute for Child D Advocacy Ministry. Dr. Proctor led the morning devotions in 1995 and 1996 with wisdom, humor, intellect, powerful preaching and a commitment to children and families that set the tone for the Institute which endures to this day. None who were there will ever forget his remarkable final sermon, “Mr. Sceva and His Seven Sons.” Following Dr. Proctor’s death in 1997, the Institute was renamed in his memory. Whether he was striding, almost dancing, to the pulpit singing “Woke Up This Morning,” or leaving the pulpit to the words “There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place,” Dr. Proctor reminded us of what it means to begin each day focused on God’s leading and to live each day with an awareness of God’s spirit in and among us as we work for justice for children.

Dr. Proctor was a remarkable servant of God in his many roles: as President of North Carolina A&T State University and Virginia Union University, and as a senior official in the in Nigeria, the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C., and the National Council of Churches. Dr. Proctor was pastor of the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church and on the faculty of the United Theological Seminary, the Divinity School at Duke University, Kean College, and Drew University. He was a Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University Divinity School and graced many of the great pulpits in our land.

Dr. Proctor was a board member of the United Negro College Fund, , Colgate-Rochester Crozer Theological Seminary of New York, Middlebury College, and the Overseers’ Visiting Committee for the Divinity School at . He received honorary doctorate degrees from more than 50 colleges and universities and many other awards.

Dr. Proctor was the author of The Young Negro in America (Associated Press, 1966), We Have This Ministry (Judson Press, 1966, with Dr. Gardner C. Taylor), Sermons from the Black Pulpit (Judson Press, 1984, with Dr. William Watley), Preaching about Crises in the Community (Westminster Press, 1988), My Moral Odyssey (Judson Press, 1989), How Shall They Hear? (Judson Press, 1991), and The Certain Sound of the Trumpet (Judson Press, 1994).

42 n Children’s Defense Fund Great Preachers of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry 1995–2017

1995 2007 Bishop John Hurst Adams The Rev. Dr. Margaret Elaine M. Flake The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Joel C. Gregory The Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond The Rev. Dr. William Vincent Guy The Rev. Dr. Harry S. Wright, Sr. The Rev. Dr. Paul Smith 1996 2008 The Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin The Rev. Dr. David A. Davis The Rev. Dr. Vashti McKenzie The Rev. Dr. Teresa L. Fry Brown The Rev. Dr. Gardner Taylor The Rev. Dr. Cynthia A. Jarvis The Rev. Dr. Renita Weems The Rev. Dr. Bernard Richardson 1997 2009 The Rev. Charles G. Adams The Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton The Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook The Rev. Dr. Yvonne Delk The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Barbara K. Lundblad The Rev. Dr. Mark Trotter The Rev. Dr. Gary V. Simpson 1998 The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. 2010 The Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell The Rev. Dr. Leslie Dawn Callahan The Rev. Dr. Prathia Hall The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson The Rev. Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Adolphus C. Lacey The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long 1999 The Rev. Dr. Luther E. Smith, Jr. Bishop Charles E. Blake 2011 Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr. Bishop Kenneth Carder Father J. Bryan Hehir The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. The Rev. The Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III 2000 The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis The Rev. Dr. John M. Buchanan The Rev. Janet Wolf The Rev. Dr. Cecil L. Murray The Rev. Dr. Joan S. Parrott 2012 (Cincinnati) The Rev. Dr. Wallace Charles Smith The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. 2001 The Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III The Rev. Dr. Fred B. Craddock The Rev. Dr. Joan S. Parrott 2013 The Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian The Rev. Dr. Leslie Dawn Callahan The Rev. Dr. Shane Claiborne The Rev. Dr. Cleophas LaRue 2002 The Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr. The Rev. Dr. Anthony C. Campbell The Rev. Janet Wolf The Rev. Dr. William Sloane Coffin The Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook 2014 The Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson II Bishop Minerva Carcaño The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. 2003 Ched Myers The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III The Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes The Rev. Dr. Anthony Campolo The Rev. Dr. Claudette A. Copeland 2015 The Rev. Dr. Frank M. Reid III Dr. Lewis Anthony Rev. William Barber II 2004 Dr. Anna Carter Florence The Rev. Dr. Donald Hilliard, Jr. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman The Rev. Dr. John W. Kinney The Rev. Dr. Carolyn Ann Knight 2016 The Rev. Otis Moss III Rev. Courtney Clayton Jenkins Dr. Michael Brandon McCormack 2005 Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas The Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant Dr. John W. Kinney The Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin The Rev. Dr. Ann F. Lightner-Fuller 2017 The Rev. Jim Wallis Rev. Traci Blackmon 2006 Rev. Damien Durr The Rev. Dr. Joanna M. Adams Rev. Willie Dwayne Francois, III The Rev. Dr. William S. Epps Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III The Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr. Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery The Rev. Dr. Eileen W. Lindner

The 24th Annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry n 43 CDF Haley Farm Severe Weather Emergency Plan

To ensure the safety of our guests, the CFD Haley Farm staff asks that you carefully read the following important information. In the event of a severe weather alert during this event, one long blast of an air horn will alert you to seek shelter. If the air horn sounds, please walk carefully, quietly, and quickly to the closest building that can provide shelter. CDF Haley Farm staff members will be available to assist all guests in seeking shelter in a building on the property. CDF Haley Farm staff members will be wearing teal CDF shirts with orange lettering. While in the shelter, CDF Haley staff members will instruct you as to the nature of the emergency. Special information and instructions may be given, so please give the staff your undivided attention and cooperation. When the emergency has passed, three short blasts of the air horn will be the signal to alert everyone that the severe weather emergency has ended. Please remain inside the shelter until a CDF Haley staff member announces that it is safe to go outside. At no time during a severe weather alert should anyone seek shelter under a tent, under the terrace at the chapel, or in the arbor behind the White House. If you have any questions about these instructions, please contact a CDF Haley Farm staff member.

Emergency Contact Information For The City Of Clinton, TN Clinton Police Department Phone: (865) 457-3112 Address: 125 W Broad St. • Clinton, TN 37716 Distance: Approximately 5 miles/11 minutes from Haley Farm Clinton Fire Department Phone: (865) 457-2131 Address: Headquarters • 125 W. Broad St. • Clinton, TN 37716 Fire Station • 100 Longmire Rd. • Clinton, TN 37716 HOSPITALS North Knoxville Medical Center Methodist Medical Center (865) 859-8000 (865) 835-1000 7565 Dannaher Dr. • Powell, TN 37849 990 Oak Ridge Turnpike • Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Distance: Approximately 13 miles/17 minutes from Distance: Approximately 14 miles/24 minutes from CDF Haley Farm CDF Haley Farm Hours: Open 24 hours Sun. – Sat. Hours: Open 24 hours Sun. – Sat. PHARMACIES Walmart Pharmacy Anderson Crossing Pharmacy (865) 457-4909 (865) 494-8444 150 Tanner Ln, Clinton, TN 37716 3318 Andersonville Hwy, Norris, TN 37705 Distance: Approximately 1 mile/6 minutes from Distance: Approximately 3 miles/8 minutes from CDF Haley Farm CDF Haley Farm Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

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Gerald Wagner Rev. Dr. Janet Wolf Facilities and Consultant on Nonviolent Security Manager Organizing and Theological Education The Children’s Defense Fund Mission Statement

he Children’s Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child T a Healthy Start, a , a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor children, children of color and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble or suffer family breakdown.

CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit organization supported by individual donations, foundation, corporate and government grants.

CDF Haley Farm is the spiritual home of CDF’s Leave No Child Behind® movement. Here, people of diverse faiths, backgrounds and hometowns are knit together as a beloved community united by a common vision for children.

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