1. Faith & Hunger Summit: April 11

2. Easter Dawn Service

3. Advocacy Spotlight:

EAD: Ecumenical Advocacy Days

Dr. Zucker visits the Winter Breakfast Program

New Advocacy CoordinatorMeet Joe

4. Lenten Reflections from FOCUS

FOCUS Churches of Albany 275 State St. Albany NY 12210

518.443.0460

www.focuschurches.net

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1. Faith & Hunger Network of NYS

3. Advocacy Spotlight

2. Easter Dawn Service

This week the Winter Breakfast welcomed the NYS Department

of Health Acting Commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker.

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

Service on Easter morning, April 5 at 6:30 am at the West Capitol Park.

The Rev. Jerrod Hugenot, Associate Regional Minister for the American Baptist

Churches of NYS will share Easter reflections.

A Community Breakfast follows at Emmanuel Baptist Church at 7:05 a.m.

The FOCUS Lenten reflections

have been created by forty men

and women from the community

of partner congregations.

As Jesus went into the desert to

pray and fast for forty days, Lent

offers us a landscape that calls

us to look at our lives from a dif-

ferent perspective, to perceive

what is essential and what is un-

necessary.

Click here to read the online

FOCUS Lenten Reflections.

4. Lenten Reflections from FOCUS

ECUMENICAL ADVOCACY DAYS Join FOCUS at the Ecumenical Advocacy Days

April 17-20 in Washington D.C.

FOCUS is offering scholarships!

This years conference with over 40 planned workshops will feature: Breaking the Chains: Mass Incarceration and Systems of Exploitation

Click to view 2015 Workshops

Click to register for the Conference

Contact Joe (joep@focuschurches.net) for more information

FOCUS welcomes Joe Paparone.

Joe has taken up the role of the

FOCUS Advocacy Coordinator. He

will be facilitating the Hungry for

Justice and FOCUS Advocate

groups as well as working within

our congregations to strengthen

our mission as people of justice.

Joe lives in Albany with his wife

Lesley and their dogs, Artax and

Nym. In his free time he enjoys

exploring the Adirondacks via

foot, bike or canoe, and playing

saxophone.

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

New Advocacy CoordinatorMeet Joe

Tuesday Breakfast Cooks Jack Armitage (left) and Peter Broderick (right) with Dr. Zucker (center)

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