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The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice seeks to ensure that every woman is free to make decisions about having children according to her own conscience and religious beliefs.
OHIO RCRC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
Central and Southern Ohio:
Sign up for Faith and Choices for your congregation.
Faith and Choices workshops. This fall, kick off your congregation’s adult education program with a Faith and Choices workshop to clarify values about reproductive choice, reconnect with your denomination’s pro-choice stance, and mobilize your congregation around issues of reproductive justice!
Ohio RCRC trains facilitators to conduct these workshops for adults in their own congregations, supplies a study/action kit for each participant, and helps the group to implement its chosen actions. Click on our Faith and Choices webpage for more information about the workshop curriculum.
To schedule a training session for facilitators, contact Ohio RCRC Director Barb Avery at 614-221-3636, or 800-587-2330 (toll-free in Ohio) or email her at ohiorcrc@sbcglobal.net.
Cleveland: Faith Matters project. Sign up for current and future activities!
Teen discussions of sex and sexuality. Teens who attended the National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality and took Keeping It Real, a faith-based dialogue on sexuality for teens, wish to share their experiences and insights with other teens. To arrange for a teen discussion at your church, call Shelene Byrd at 216 268-2668 or email her at BeautifulAnointedDaughters@yahoogroups.com.
Clergy workshop: Pastoral Counseling for Reproductive Choice (PCRL).
Co-sponsored by Faith Matters project and the Rabbinical Council.
Monday, November 10, 2008, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, located at 23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood, Ohio 44122-2296. (216-464-1330) Click here for directions.
Any loss, whether through miscarriage, infertility, stillbirth, adoption, or abortion, can carry with it a range of feelings, The PCRL workshop provides clergy with the information and skills they need to be an effective pastoral presence to help restore emotional health experiencing such losses and coping with these feelings. The workshop covers medical, emotional, and spiritual issues, and includes rituals and an extensive bibliography of both print and on-line resources.
The workshop is open to clergy and seminarians of all faiths. Your fee of $25 will pay for a PCRL manual, continental breakfast and lunch.
To register, print out the PCRL registration form. Fill it in and mail it with your $25 check to Ohio RCRC, P.O. Box 82204, Columbus, OH 43202. Please mail your form by Tuesday, Nov. 4. Scholarships available; send your request with the registration form.
Field tests of teen sexuality education sessions. After Keeping It Real, what’s next? Sexuality education with up-to-date facts! This fall, teens may participate in a day-long field test of four educational sessions on HIV/AIDS prevention, contraception, anatomy and physiology, and puberty. Fifty (50) teen participants are needed. Gift certificates will be awarded to participants who participate in two sessions (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). Lunch is provided. Parents and teens can sign up by contacting Rev. Tony Minor.
To participate in Faith Matters programs, contact Faith Matters Coordinator, Rev. Tony Minor at Rev_Minor@Yahoo.com, or 216-324-6352.
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All-Options Clergy Counseling Hotline:
1-614-221-3636 (in Central Ohio) or 1-800-587-2330 (toll free in Ohio). Our counseling services provide access to a clergy member trained in supporting a woman in making decisions in keeping with her own conscience, beliefs, and circumstances.
Immediate Volunteer Opportunities
Bulk mailing expert (or someone willing to learn from our retiring expert)
Writer/editor—for short articles for newsletter, e-newsletter, and website
Photographer–to take photos at events for publications
To volunteer for these opportunities, contact Director Barb Avery. Email her at ohiorcrc@sbcglobal.net or call her at 614-221-3636 or 800-587-2330 (toll-free) if you are outside Central Ohio.
Campus Organizers for SYRF–Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom
Pro-choice religious/ spiritual college students willing to present religious pro-chioce educational events at their own college.
Click here for the SYRF website, to find out how to apply.
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OHIO RCRC BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXPANDING–Accepting Nominations and Applications for New Members Now!
During 2008-9, the Ohio RCRC Board plans to expand to its full size and strength, with diverse members from various regions of Ohio.
Our Nominating Committee is recruiting dynamic Board members who are interested in lifting up an interfaith, effective voice for reproductive justice in Ohio.
The Committee wants a Board which represents the diversity that is Ohio. Such a Board would include geographic, ethnic and racial, socio-economic diversity, different genders and sexual orientations, a range of ages (including youth); a variety of careers and skills---well as religious and spiritual diversity.
Members are expected to be participating volunteers in the organization, offering their skills and talents, as well as financial support, to the best of their ability, for a two year term.
For more information, read the Job Description. For more information on the kinds of diversity and talents the Board is seeking, see Recommendations.
You can submit an application for the Board or nominate someone you think is qualified. Click here to download an Application Form or Nomination Form. Please expedite our search by sending your completed form by email to ohiorcrc@sbcglobal.net.
Send your application or nomination to us by Sept. 7 to be considered for the first group of 5-6 Board members to be chosen in mid-September, receive orientation and participate in a Board retreat in late September. The second set of 5-6 will be chosen from applications/nominations due by January 7; an orientation will be held in early February.
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