Thursday July 30, 2009
5:00pm - 9:00pm
The Well, Feasterville
1631 Loretta Ave.
Feasterville, PA 19053
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$5 suggested donation supports Bucks County Food Banks. (No registration necessary. Event is open to the public).
For more information, contact our Event Coordinator:
Gabrielle Piccari gpiccari@thewellpa.com
215-378-0158
You may also contact:
Pastor Gary Alloway garya@thewelpa.com
609-240-9295
You are invited to join us for a night of networking and eduction on the unique issue of suburban homelessness. After a time of networking, we will hear from an excellent panel of Community leaders from Bucks County on this important topic.
Download a Flyer: You can download a flyer for this event here.
Vitor Vicente
Bucks County Director of Community and Business Development
Mr Vicente is the Director of Community and Business Development and has a wealth of information on homelessness, housing programs, business development, and the struggles of a community and how to strengthen it.
Donna McHugh
Realtor and board member of the Bucks County Housing Group
Bill Burns
Red Cross Director of Homeless Shelter Services Bill Burns.
Bill’s work with homeless people began in New York City in the late 80s where he worked at a shelter that served 88 families in the South Bronx. He co-chaired a Homeless Action Coalition in San Antonio, TX and has been the director of large shelters that served families and singles in Brooklyn, NY, and North Philadelphia.
Kork Moyer
Kork Moyer is a pastor at Still Waters home churches & worship center, located in Pottstown, PA. He is an activist, professional musician, husband, father of five, and the founder of The Ministries at MAIN St Homeless Shelter; a ministry, where cooperative churches share the responsibility of caring for their local homeless community through the winter months, by providing breakfast, dinner and a bed, changing the church community from within. (Matt. 25) He sees the Western Church as being in trouble and the poor as their salvation.
Gary Alloway (Panel Moderator)
Pastor at The Well in Feasterville, PA
Gary is the pastor of The Well in charge of local outreach. He has worked for the Bucks County Housing Group, organized educational events on issues of suburban poverty, and will be leading the Well on its second annual all-local mission week. After working with several inner-city rescue missions, Gary is passionate about bringing the suburban community together to address its growing needs.
More Panelists to Be Announced Soon
Agencies, churches, and individuals are invited to bring resources, ideas, and information about what they do, so that as a community, we can be better coordinated in our efforts to help those in homelessness.
Community leaders from the government, business, non-profit, and religious communities will both teach and lead a forum on how we can better address this growing problem. Speakers include County Commissioner Diane Marseglia and Red Cross Director of Homeless Shelter Services Bill Burns.