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Main PageFrom SCVDWelcome to the Santa Clara Valley Deanery!Events'St. Jude’s Hosts: Step-Up Silicon Valley Poverty Simulation Sign-up Early for Limited Seating - 80 Participants On Saturday, August 21, in the Parish Hall between 10:30AM and 2PM, St. Jude’s, Cupertno will host a community action Poverty learning session as part of Step Up Silicon Valley’s campaign to cut poverty in our communities. Saint Jude's is easy to reach off of Highway 85 in Cupertino: click here for directions. The exercise isn’t an end in itself. If it is effective as hoped, it will be a step in expanding the greater community’s understanding of poverty. The objective is to equip ourselves to foster meaningful public policy that helps alleviate poverty in Santa Clara County. Participants from high school age and up can signup online by going to: http://povertysimulationcupertino.eventbrite.com Registration is free and open to the community at large. A simple lunch is included and a $5 donation is appreciated. Step Up Silicon Valley is an interfaith group whose Community Action Poverty Simulation educates about the day-to-day realities of life with a shortage of money and an abundance of stress. During the simulation, participants role-play the lives of low-income families, from single parents trying to care for their children, to senior citizens trying to maintain their self-sufficiency on Social Security. The task of each family is to provide food, shelter, and the basic necessities during the simulation while interacting with various challenges and community resources which are staffed by volunteers living in poverty. Although the activity uses “play” money and other props, fictional scenarios, and time limits, the Poverty Simulation is NOT a game. It’s a tool that enables participants to view the real world of poverty leading to maximum understanding and future positive action. By the end of the exercise, a person can change their ideas of what a family in poverty experiences. Richard Trevisan, a former St. Jude’s parishioner, strongly recommends this experience saying, “even with the years that I have worked on understanding poverty, I learned things that were not apparent to me.”
The Valley Road Santa Clara Valley Deanery Issue 1, No. 1 August 18, 2010
Welcome to the new Santa Clara Valley Deanery (SCVD) electronic newsletter! This newsletter will be sent out, normally not more than once a month (unless an urgent message needs communicating) to inform you of the activities going on in our deanery. The name is a take-off of the "Along the King's Highway" name of the diocesan newsletter. Feel free to contact me, The Rev. Tom Sramek, Jr., at frtom@stedwards.org if you need to add, change, or delete an address or if you have something you would like included in the newsletter.
Our "Convention Preparation" meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 28 at St. Andrew's, Saratoga (where we held our last meeting). Please make every effort to come and to have all of your clergy and delegates there. The agenda is as follows: 9:30 a.m. Gathering and Refreshments 9:45 a.m. Opening Prayer, Welcome, and Announcements 10 a.m. Diocesan Budget Presentation & Convention Preparation 11:15 a.m. Break 11:30 a.m. Deanery Business - Board of Trustees Election
- Schedule of Meetings (quarterly?)
- Other Items
12:15 p.m. Lunch (provided, donations accepted, RSVP needed) 1 p.m. Networking with Bishop Mary Please RSVP for a lunch count to Ann Wright at annwright6@comcast.net so that we don't run out of food! Donations ($5 suggested) will be taken to defray costs. See you there! The Rev. Tom Sramek, Jr., Convener The Rev. Peggy Bryan, Co-Convener
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edited 6/25/10 Deanery on the InternetLinkedIn GroupCheck out the LinkedIn community networking group for the Santa Clara Valley Deanery. This group is for members and friends of the Santa Clara Valley Deanery - Episcopal Diocese, El Camino Real on the Central Coast of California who want to make professional connections, hunt for jobs, etc. This is free to join and open to all. The group is called "Santa Clara Valley Deanery - Episcopal Diocese, El Camino Real" - you can find it by logging into LinkedIn then using the Search Groups bar at the top, look for "SCV Deanery", then click "Join this group". Orientation for new delegates
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