faithaction

What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions? Or are we being called...

Sam Fulwood visits goes to Greensboro, North Carolina to take a look at how communities of faith are mobilizing around immigration.

Nar and Sabita invited me to their house last Sunday to participate in their annual puja. A puja is a worship service, a feast, and opportunity to see friends and family, a gathering of the community and a very colorful photo opportunity. My Nepalese friends have always welcomed my taking photographs and videos of their services. The priest, or pandit, is a refugee from Bhutan. He spent 17 years in a refugee camp in Nepal before coming to the states about a year ago.

Our Movie-Making Class for Immigrants and Refugees will use small camcorders called FlipVideos to film our movies. We ordered ten of them from the company's special offer to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations where we buy one and get one free. We've got ten students and that means one camera each!

This week, the movie cameras arrived. The staff of FaithAction International House got a big kick out of unpacking and playing with them.

David Pau records Trish talking about the sound quality of the FlipVideos. He's filming with a Flip. You see Tom Lassiter, Trish Perkins and Victoria Sadeq, our all-volunteer team, as well a couple of our students.

Since our organization started using Salesforce, we have been spreading the joy! Six more orgs have joined! The Guilford Nonprofit Consortium is hoping I can go to Dreamforce to be able to help out...