Pine Church is proud to be a

Reconciling Church!

In 1994 Pine UMC voted to declare itself a "Reconciling Church". Pine UMC was the first Asian American church in the country to do so. As a Reconciling Church, we are a part of the larger Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) which is a growing movement of United Methodist individuals, congregations, campus ministries, and other groups who are working toward the full participation of all people in the United Methodist Church regardless of sexual orientation. The RMN is an independent, not-for-profit organization with no official ties to the United Methodist Church. However we are a part of the United Methodist tradition of social concern and action, a justice seeking, Spirited-people. For more information please check out this website: www.rcp.org

Every year Pine Church celebrates the San Francisco Gay Pride Weekend with a service to remember that is our responsibility to keep our our doors open to all of God's children.

Join Us as LGBT Asian Pacific Americans from across the country convene
at the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference

Oakland, CA * November 10 to 13, 2005

HIGHLIGHTS

** Keynote Speakers: Helen Zia and Urvashi Vaid

** LGBT APA National Town Hall Meeting

** LGBT APA Luncheon

** Informal Dinner Outings for Women/Trans and South Asians

** Special Track of Workshops for LGBT APAs

** LGBT APA Exhibitor Table

For more information go to the Task Force's website
<www.thetaskforce.org>
and click on "Creating Change." If you have any questions, please
contact
Alain Dang at the Task Force at <adang@thetaskforce.org> or
646-358-1464.
We hope to see you there.

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SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

All day - LGBT APA Exhibitor Table - Pick up Queer & Asian stickers,
buttons, t-shirts, multilingual community education postcards and
flyers.

9:00 - 10:30 AM Session 1 Workshop
Yellow Peril, Terrorists, and Racism: Current Issues Confronting LGBT
Asian Pacific Americans

10:45 AM - 12 Noon, Conference Plenary Keynote Speaker Helen Zia,
nationally acclaimed author and activist

1:00 - 2:00 PM, LGBT Asian Pacific American Caucus

2:15 - 3:45 PM, Session 2 Workshop
It's not Just Black and White: Racial Dynamics in "Paradise"

4:00 - 5:30 PM, Session 3 Workshop
Class and the Queer Agenda

6:00 - 7:30 PM, Session 4 Workshop
API Families Coming Out Together

6:00 - 7:30 PM, Session 4 Workshop
LGBT Immigrants' Rights

7:30 - 9:30 PM

LGBT APA NATIONAL TOWN HALL MEETING
Asian Pacific Americans are among the nation's fastest growing minority
groups. Many are foreign-born or limited English proficient. Although
more and more are coming out and building community, their unique needs
and concerns are overlooked and marginalized. Building on past
convenings of LGBT APAs, the NGLTF Creating Change conferences is proud
to co-host the first-ever National Town Hall meeting of Queer Asian
Pacific Americans. We hope to explore organizing at the intersection of
race, immigration, language, and sexuality in strategies for social,
political and economic justice and community building. We also hope to
discuss a national organizing agenda and support for LGBT APAs.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

All day - LGBT APA Exhibitor Table - Pick up Queer & Asian stickers,
buttons, t-shirts, multilingual community education postcards and
flyers.

9:00 - 10:30 AM, Session 5 Workshop
Organizing LGBT Asian Pacific Americans for Social Change

10:45 AM - 12 Noon, Conference Plenary Keynote Speaker Urvashi Vaid,
longtime attorney, community organizer, and writer.

12 Noon - 1:00 PM

LGBT APA NETWORKING LUNCHEON
All Asian Pacific American Creating Change Conference attendees are
invited to attend a luncheon to further network and get updates on
Friday's National LGBT APA Town Hall meeting and other conference
developments and national LGBT APA organizing developments.

1:00 - 2:00 PM Caucus
Gender Transgressive Individuals of the Chinese Diaspora

2:15 - 3:45 PM, Session 6 Workshop
What Matters to You? Participatory Research and Surveying in API
Community

4:00 - 5:30 PM, Session 7 Workshop
API Religious Support for Marriage Equality

6:00 - 7:30 PM, Session 8 Workshop
What is the Korean or Bengali word for "gay?": Organizing Across
Language

8:00 PM, Informal Dinner Outings
These are pay-for-yourself dinners to help folks network and stay
connected after the conference. Dinners are only open to people of
similar heritage/ experiences. Interested folks should meet up at the
LGBT APA Exhibitor table and then people will go off as a group to eat.

* South Asian Dinner
Contact: Hrishikesh Sathawane (cell) 408-393-3669; Pabitra Benjamin
(cell)
608-335-5095

* API Women's/ Trans Dinner
Contact: Diana Ming Yin (cell) 415-722-0118; Rebecca Sawyer (cell)
202-288-2969

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13

9:00 - 10:30 AM, Session 9 Workshop
Raise the Red Lantern! How the Media has covered the Organizing Around
Marriage Equality in the API Community

11:00 AM - 1:30 PM, Conference Closing Plenary Award Ceremony Join us as
NGLTF honors Andy Marra of GLAAD and NCTE.

 

ALL ARE WELCOME AT PINE CHURCH!