Rev. Amy Gopp and William Burnett

This episode is presented in conjunction with Union's Poverty Initiative.

Our first speaker, Rev. Amy Gopp is currently Associate Director of Week of Compassion Ministries, the relief, refugee and development ministry fund of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a fund which reaches out to suffering people around the world. More information can be found at www.weekofcompassion.org

Rev. Gopp received her Master of Divinity degree from Union in May 2005. While a student at Union she co-founded Union's Poverty Initiative, a program devoted to training future religious leaders to overcome poverty and economic injustice in America more information on this program can be found on it's website www.povertyinitiative.org

Today we present her sermon entitled "Where is the Victory," Rev. Gopp delivered this sermon at Union's James Chapel on Monday, the 27th of Feb, 2006.

Our second speaker is William Burnett, faith community organizer of Picture the Homeless, an organization founded by Lewis Haggins, Jr., and Anthony Williams, both homelss men. Picture The Homeless is an organization dedicated to empowering the homeless to unite in a collective voice. More information on Picture the Homeless can be found at their website www.picturethehomeless.org

In this episode William Burnett delivers a sermon entitled "Palms and Ashes" at Union's James Chapel on Wed March 1st, 2006