Information on Other Upcoming Events:

• The National Convocation of the National Fed. of Asian American United Methodist will be meeting July 29-31, 2010 in San Jose, CA.  We will be meeting at Wesley UMC, 566 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA 95112.   For more information contact the NFAAUM Office, Ms. Laddie Galang, Adm. Assistant, 1755 Sunnyvale Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA 94597-1809; phone: (925) 727-1295; e-mail: nfaaum@pacbell.net or Mr. Don Hayashi, NFAAUM Pres., 1133 Woodland Meadows Dr., Vandalia, OH 45377-1567; office phone (937) 263-3556; home phone (937) 890-2729; e-mail: hayashidon@aol.com

• On July 28-29th the Asian American/Pacific Islander Clergywomen's Association will be meeting in San Jose also.  Contcts For the ASIAN AMERICAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER CLERGYWOMEN'S GATHERING --  Rev. Nizzi Digan, Chair, 83 Chestnut Street, Saugus, MA 01906; (617) 480-2955 and  Rev. Motoe Yamada, Vice Chair, Japanese UMC, 6929 Franklin Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95831; Church phone: (916) 421-1017; Cell phone: (408) 439-1247; e-mail: motoeyamada@yahoo.com

• Re-Dream a Just World: Writing and Social Change.  August 5-9, 2010 at the Leaven Center.  Explore the profound connection that the act and art of writing have to the work of increasing social justice. Find in your passion for justice the engine to drive your writing, to reveal, to witness, to commemorate — and to explore language, character and story beyond political pressure and societal lies. Find ways to effectively move and inform people. Use the concreteness, the “microscopic truthfulness” of good writing, to help your reader know and feel what you yearn to make known about the world. http://store.leaven.org/rejuwowrands.html