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Support and Development


Strengthening the Vision and Work of Word and World

Word and World is a young, low-budget, grassroots collaborative. Over the past four years we have been able to organize four successful peoples’ schools, because the organizers and faculty gave generously of their time and energy, and we received personal financial resources from people who connected with this vision and work. If your Spirit resonates with what you’ve seen in the content of this website, we invite your partnership in continuing this work.

Giving, of your attention and resources, is first and foremost, an act of participation.  Responding to the call to participate is the individual and corporate responsibility of all of God’s children. We are thankful to have your company in the vocation of social transformation.

Some of the ways you can participate in the Word and World vision include supporting us with:

Prayer

Please pray for the staff, organizers, faculty and participants in Word and World schools.

Donations

Please consider a financial donation, or tithe, to defray expenses. Financial contributions are tax-deductible and will be acknowledged with a receipt. Hundreds of individual donors have enabled Word and World to grow through their thoughtful and generous giving. We invite you into a deeper relationship with this work through participating as a donor.

Checks payable to Word and World can be sent to our Greensboro NC office:

PO Box 1623, Greensboro, NC 27402

(Download our Donation Form)

Scholarship Fund

Please consider a contribution to our scholarship fund; one-third of participants receive scholarships so that financial status will not be a barrier to attending a school.  Our programs emphasize diversity of race, gender, sexuality, age, and geographical background – to carry this intention out it is essential that we have the special resources to include everyone.

Spread the News

Please spread the good news about Word and World among your friends, colleagues, and community. Please contact us if you would like to receive flyers or other written material and/or application forms for Word and World Schools.  We are also able to accommodate arranged interviews for articles or stories about Word and World.

 

Thank you for considering this request for your solidarity and partnership. We are confident that: this school is an extraordinary spiritual, theological and political experience that has no other parallel; this "village of learning" generates hope and encouragement, not to mention a broadening and deepening of faith and justice networks; and, by your financial partnership you help us sustain this young experiment in alternative theological reflection, and thus help rebuild the church as "Movement" and the Movement as "church."

Ched Myers on "equipping everyday disciples"


"...to help equip everyday disciples to overcome their sense of disempowerment and denial in order to engage in the evangelical works of mercy, service, advocacy and resistance, we must do battle with dysfunctional theological concepts and domesticated biblical readings that refuse to address the deepening violence and broadening socio-economic disparity around us. In their place we need a more critical and grounded Christian literacy in Word and World. The biggest problem facing us, as I see it, is the gulf between seminaries, local congregations and faith-based activist organizations... We need to discuss together the challenges of this historical moment, and to embrace the central spiritual task of movement building: the task of becoming more, not less, than the sum of our parts... we must reach out to one another and find the connections between our work, and... take care of each other. Let us hope the Spirit leads..."

For more information on how you can support this theological experiment, please contact:

Development Staff


P.O. Box 1623
Greensboro, NC 27402-1623
Phone: 336-230-0330

email: development@wordandworld.org

 


Circle of Support

Many thanks to these people and organizations for the generous support they have given to Word & World:

Joe Agne
Edward Beres
Daniel Berrigan
Stephen Borla & Kathryn Foran
Judith Borshner & Keary Kincannon
Kevin & Isobel Cashman
Jean Chapman
Beverly Clarke
Steve and Christine Clemens
Anne Cook
Dale Cooper
Mary Cowal
Angela Cowser
Ellen & David Danforth
Charles Demere
Laura Deming & John Stubbs
Marcia & Clancy Dunigan
Carter Echols
James & Wendy Emerich
Michael Fiala
Greg & Tricia Foran
Joe & June Foran
Joe Franko
Donna Freiermuth
Elaine Emily & Laura Magnani
Hollyce Giles
Norman & Laura Gottwald
Kathy Grieb
Melvin & Leda Hall
Paul & Evelyn Hanneman
Z & Charlene Holler
Joyce Hollyday
Andrew Hudson
Nelson & Joyce Johnson
Lucinda Keils
Paul Kellermann & Pat Hartsoe
Charlie King & Karen Brandow
Ross & Gloria Kinsler
Caroline Kinsler Jonah & David Jonah
Glenn Kumekawa
Snake Kunda
Robert & Marietta Lane
Debra & Jeff Link
Arthur & Susan Lloyd
Lance & Frances Loberg
Andy Loving & Susan Taylor
Louisville Seminary
William &Linda Ocker Mashburn
Raymond & Rita McGovern
Elizabeth McMeekin & Philip Moses
Kathleen Meyer
Uncas McThenia
Bob & Barbara Miller
Marcena Moore
Amy Moritz
Rev. Gary Nettleton
Joel Nigg
Deborah Noonan
John Parker & Easter Maynard
Jim Perkinson & Lily Mendoza
Kim & Matthew Redigan
Sheela Repoley
Kathy Jean Reynolds
Anthony & Gail Ricciuti
Peg Rosenkrands
Beverly Schneider
Katherine Schmitt
Donald Schultz & Joan Deming
Barry Shelly & Brenda Wyss
Mary Alice Shemo
Gordon & Frances Smith
Kaki Sjogren
Thomas & Carolyn Slack
Kate Stevens & John Hoffman
Mary Tanney & Carl Yusavitz
Phyllis & Richard Taylor
Rick & Kitty Ufford-Chase
Mark & Julie Walden
Robert Weidman
Ed Whitfield
Bill Wylie-Kellermann

 

Thank You!

   
Word and World~PO Box 1623~Greensboro, NC 27402~336-230-0330~info@wordandworld.org