Faith in the City: Human Trafficking

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Offered this week, January 5 – 8, 2016, at Virginia Union, in the L. Douglas Wilder Library:

Human Trafficking is active throughout the world today, as it has been for millennia. How do we understand this scourge as Christians, and how can we continue to address it, its perpetrators and its victims?

This course is offered to the Richmond Community free of charge. Full attendance is required for course credit. Persons may attend all or part of the program. Lunch provided Tues –Thurs. The event will be held on campus at Virginia Union University in the L. Douglas Wilder Library.

The Faculty will include: 
Dr. John W. Kinney, Dean and Professor of Theology, STVU 
Dr. Patricia Gould-Champ, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, STVU
Rev. Valerie Carter, Executive Director of Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia
Rev. Dr. Paula Owens Parker, Presbyterian minister and senior program developer of Roots Matter

Schedule: 
Jan. 5 Tuesday  9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Lunch 11:30)  Theological and Biblical foundations and teaching about Human Relations, Human
Sexuality, Human Trafficking, and Human Bondage:  Dr. John Kinney, Dr. Patricia  Gould-Champ.  •••

Jan. 6 Wednesday  9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch 11:30 On the Ground: Human Trafficking in the world, in Virginia, and in Richmond today: Rev. Valerie Carter  •••

Jan. 7 Thursday  9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch 11:30 Healing and Trauma: Rev. Dr. Paula Parker  •••

Jan. 8 Friday 9 a.m. – 12 noon Next Steps: Dialogue Groups and Group Reports

Please register in advance with Yvette Goode, Faculty Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, 257-5715.

Co-sponsored by Faith Community Baptist Church and Richmond Hill