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34. False Positives -- Response to current events
    Sent November 30th 2008

    False Positives -- Response to current events I arrived in Barranquilla on November 3, the day before the US presidential election. Those first days I was here there was interest among the Colombians about the election and I was impressed by how well in...

33. Women Work for Reconciliation
    Sent November 24th 2008

    Women Work for Reconciliation At the end of my first week, I met some women in the Presbytery office who were preparing packets to take to a CLAI–Colombia women´s meeting. One of the women was German´s wife, Teresita, who was coordinating this year´s e...

32. Thoughts of Accompaniment
    Sent November 20th 2008

    Thoughts of Accompaniment The accompaniers are assigned to a very fine man, German, who is their mentor while they are in Colombia. When I met German for the first time, he shared with me that the situation in the Presbytery of the Coast has changed ove...

31. Visit to Camelot
    Sent October 21st 2008

    Visit to Camelot Visit to Camelot 10/6/08 Accompaniers Miranda Brown Lee, Bob Lesley and Ruth Nelson were joined by a group of four people on a mission trip to Barranquilla from the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio for a trip to the city...

30. Visit to the displaced community near Piojó
    Sent October 14th 2008

    Visit to the displaced community near Piojó Visit to the displaced community near Piojó Miranda Brownlee & Bob Leslie 10/4/08 We accompaniers traveled with a representative of ANDESCOL (National Association of Displaced Persons of Colombia), to a far...

29. DAS Seeks to Question Facilitators of Conflict Resolution and Construction of Peace Workshop
    Sent September 18th 2008

    DAS Seeks to Question Facilitators of Conflict Resolution and Construction of Peace Workshop DAS Seeks to Question Facilitators of "Conflict Resolution and Construction of Peace" Workshop The Network of Latin American OIKOSNET Centers and the Center of A...

28. Accompaniment in Palenque
    Sent August 22nd 2008

    Accompaniment in Palenque by Accompaniers Judy Sheppard Bierbaum & Beth Beall We share the following story with you, because that is what the people living in Palenque de San Basilio (including the displaced people of La Bonga) and the Presbyterian Chur...

27. Not My Agenda
    Sent August 6th 2008

    Not My Agenda "NOT MY AGENDA" by Accompaniers Judy Sheppard Bierbaum and Beth Beall Being an accompanier is about letting go of one's own agenda. It's about letting go of what we think this experience should look like and be like. Being an accompanier...

26. Celebrating Life in the Midst of Violence
    Sent July 29th 2008

    Celebrating Life in the Midst of Violence "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." -John 10:10 During the National Women's Congress that we wrote about at the beginning of our time in Colombia, we received a special invitation from th...

25. "The land is our flag"
    Sent July 24th 2008

    "The land is our flag" "Nuestra bandera es la tierra: es cultivar la tierra para que el pueblo coma." "Our flag is the land: it is cultivating the land so that the people can eat." These words of commitment were shared with us by a simply dressed humb...

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