by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2009 | Featured, Justice and Peace
In this weeks featured video on famvin (right hand column) the question is asked “What if you lost everything, how long would it take you to get something to eat, find a place to stay, and a get some work? A Brazilian pastor, Claudio Oliver, offers up a...
by John Freund, CM | May 4, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Justice and Peace, Systemic change
These words, See it, Film it, Change it!, represent another approach to systemic change. The website WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. “We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2009 | Collaboration, Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FlipVideo, Wikipedia, Podcasts, Blogs… These are but a few of the buzzwords and tools that are reshaping how we communicate in an Internet Age. The time seems to have come to begin to catalog what is actually going on in the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 19, 2009 | Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
What do all these groups have in common? Arkansas Rice Depot, Arkansas Foodbank Network, Americorps, Catholic Charities, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, FEMA, Ladies of Charity, VOAD, UMCOR, Presbyterian Church,...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 10, 2009 | Featured
“He is risen!” Our hope! Our Joy! Our liberation! Painted by Sr. Gail Rieth, RSM, a former famvin.org collaborator, who, with all of our family and friends who have gone before us, experiences the reality she painted before her untimely death two years...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 8, 2009 | Church, Featured
In “Children and their families share the mysteries” Patricia Tryon, frequent contributor to famvin.org and the Vincentian Encyclopedia, hosts her own beautiful website. Be sure to visit the section geared to adults.
