In this Impact Report, we feature highlights from Justice For All (JFA) events that took place from March to September. Each highlighted event illustrates the way smaller training teams can help us make a bigger impact. We’ve found that empowering our trainers to do events on their own helps our team to be nimble and ready to meet the great need all over the country for good dialogue training—training that includes outreach whenever possible.
This month we report on a different kind of impact that God has created through JFA, specifically through the work of our office manager, Eva Heath. This is the story of the impact God produces through human beings many have written off because of their circumstances or disabilities. It’s also the story of one woman’s testimony that even if we can’t see the good that God is bringing from difficulties right now, we must hope in Him, loving every human being precisely because each person is made in the image of God. We bid a fond farewell to you this month, Eva, and we trust God will care for you in the new chapter of your retirement!
When JFA debuted its new Art of Life Exhibit at CSU a few months ago, the student television station did a short piece on the exhibit, protesters of JFA (were they protesting the exhibit?), and some of the other responses of students. You can hear an introduction to the exhibit by JFA's Rebecca Haschke at 1:12.
See our "Exhibits" page to learn more about all of JFA's exhibits, including "Art of Life" and "Stop and Think," created in 2016.
JFA partnered with Live Action UCLA to bring The Art of Life and Stop and Think, two new exhibits by Justice For All, to UCLA in May. (See an introduction to the two exhibits here.) During the day we displayed The Art of Life, I was engaged in a conversation with two gentlemen at the exhibit when Jacqueline Pei, a reporter with Fem, a Feminist Newsmagazine at UCLA, asked if she could record our conversation for a story she was writing for Fem News. I was hesitant, but agreed, and we had a good discussion. Another woman joined at one point as well.
Ms. Pei published her report at Fem a few days later. I was happy to see that although she was confident in a different perspective than mine, she appears to have given my thoughts and ideas an accurate rendering and a fair hearing. Thanks, Jackie. I hope we can continue the discussion at some point.
You can read Tom Venzor's recent review in the Southern Nebraska Register, entitled "(More) Lessons learned from abortion dialogue workshop." (The first part of the review is available here.)
Tom Venzor reviewed a recent JFA workshop in the Southern Nebraska Register of the Diocese of Lincoln.
The University of Georgia (UGA) newspaper, The Red & Black, covered JFA's recent UGA outreach in two articles:
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(Photo Credit: Skyler Leonard)
See Justice For All's recent Colorado State University (CSU) outreach through the eyes of one student reporter in "Group displaying posters of fetuses comes to CSU Plaza," published in the Rocky Mountain Collegian on September 28, 2015.
Bishop Edward Weisenberger attended JFA's recent workshop in Russell, Kansas and reflected on the event and what each of us can do to stop abortion in his article, "Our pro-life work must begin with each of us" in The Register of the Catholic Diocese of Salina (Sept. 11, 2015, p. 2).
