Celebrate Global Twinning
What do you know about Global Parish Twinning? Does your parish twin?
Do you want to learn more about twinning?
Come to the
Parish Global Twinning Gathering
Conference and Mass
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Jesus the Good Shepherd
1601 West Mount Harmony Road
Owings, Maryland 20736
Sign In / On-Site Registration: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Pre-register and pay online here
Cost: $15, includes lunch
Conference Schedule
Opening Prayer & Remarks 10:50 a.m.
Keynote Address: 11:10
Twinning & Your Parish: 12:20 p.m.
Lunch and Exhibits: 1:00
Workshop Session: 2:00 to 3:00
Workshop Session: 3:15 to 4:15
Closing Mass: 5:00
Closing Mass
Bishop Martin Holley, Celebrant
Archdiocese of Washington
The closing Mass will be celebrated with the Jesus the Good Shepherd parish community at their Vigil Mass at 5:00 p.m.
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Sponsored by:
Department for Charity and Justice
Archdiocese of Washington
Catholic Relief Services
Keynote Address
Celebrate Parish Twinning:
Many Needs, Many Blessings
Kimberly Mazyck
The Celebrate Parish Twinning Gathering keynote address will focus on the practical aspects of parish global twinning arrangements. Keynote speaker Kimberly Mazyck of Catholic Relief Services will also look at the benefits of global twinning to the local parish and parishioners as they interact with parishioners at parishes in other countries with great needs. Twinning is a two-way street, with the blessings flowing both ways as people share their gifts and blessings with others—including their joys and hopes, griefs and anxieties. Kimberly Mazyck has considerable experience working overseas which helps inform her views on twinning and its many benefits to all involved.
Twinning & Your Parish
Twinning, the New Evangelization & Indicators of Vitality
Dr. Susan Timoney
As part of a three-person Twinning & Your Parish panel, Dr. Timoney will look at the benefits of grounding parish global twinning in light of the vision of the New Evangelization and the archdiocesan Indicators of Vitality. The Indicators currently being implemented in the Archdiocese help parishes clarify current needs and strategically plan for full and active participation in the mission of the New Evangelization.
The Pastor’s Perspective
Msgr. Raymond East
Fr. Michael King
Also as part of the three-person panel, Msgr. East and Fr. King will speak from their personal and parish experiences regarding twinning and how it has enriched their parishes and enriched and deepened the spirituality of their parishioners. They will consider basic concerns of parishes regarding twinning and answer questions you have about global twinning.
Workshop Session 1
2:00 p.m. to 3:00
1. Twinning 101: Getting Started (Tips and Tools)
Facilitators: Jay Brown, Gilda Beauzile
Looking to start a vibrant twinning relationship? Trying to re-invigorate a stale or stagnant twinning ministry? Jay Brown from the Diocese of Richmond will provide tips and resources that have been used to develop long-term and mutually beneficial twinning ministries at parishes in the Diocese of Richmond for over 25 years. Gilda Beauzile from the Archdiocese of Washington will speak about her twinning experience of just under four years. Just start where you are – it can be done!
2. Economic Stimulation: Generating Sustainable Projects in Partnership
Facilitators: Kim Lamberty, Christie Newman
Economic development is a universal concern in impoverished countries. Learn how you can develop projects that generate jobs and income for sister parish communities. Kim and Christie’s presentations will demonstrate two projects: Just Haiti (coffee production) and Hens for Haiti (egg production), designed to provide jobs to the local economy.
3. Medical Missions: Responding to the Needs of the Poor in Impoverished Countries
Facilitators: Sherrie Wade, Pat Labuda
Due to overwhelming poverty and the lack of adequate personnel and facilities, most impoverished countries do not receive adequate preventative, diagnostic or remedial medical care on a regular basis. In this presentation you will learn how Saint Paul Parish, Damascus Maryland established and maintains a medical clinic in El Rosario, Honduras, since the devastation of Hurricane Mich in 1998. You will also receive the knowledge and practical experience of 25 years on how to arrange for and conduct a medical mission for your twinned parish designed to address the most pressing endemic problems, such as in Haiti.
Workshop Session 2
3:15 p.m. to 4:15
4. Education & Schools
Facilitators: Cynthia Norris, Patricia Waddell
Education is often taken for granted in this country. Public education is something that every child is entitled to without cost, and private education is available to those who choose and can afford to attend. In some impoverished countries education is not free and often not conveniently available. Yet most of these parents readily acknowledge that education of their children is prerequisite to a better life. This presentation will discuss the practical realities of constructing and operating a school facility; identifying, paying, and managing qualified teachers; providing meals for the students; and the benefits that have been realized in so doing.
5. Infrastructure: Water, Sanitation, Electricity, and the Internet
Facilitator: Larry Newman
The lack of availability of potable water and adequate sanitation facilities is one of the fundamental problems facing impoverished countries. The need to travel long distances for water often consumes a large amount of time, and reduces the ability to concentrate time on other productive matters. Lack of adequate sanitation has also been a persistent problem. Availability of reliable electrical service is something that is largely taken for granted in the US. Recently, access to computer technology and the internet has become a focus on the national level. This presentation will focus on how to provide the basic needs to even the most remote communities.
6. Twinning 101: Getting Started (Tips and Tools)
Facilitators: Jay Brown, Gilda Beauzile
Looking to start a vibrant twinning relationship? Trying to re-invigorate a stale or stagnant twinning ministry? Jay Brown from the Diocese of Richmond will provide tips and resources that have been used to develop long-term and mutually beneficial twinning ministries at parishes in the Diocese of Richmond for over 25 years. Gilda Beauzile from the Archdiocese of Washington will speak about her twinning experience of just under four years. Just start where you are – it can be done!
7. Walking the Road to Peace in El Salvador
Facilitators: Jean Johnson, M.J. Park
Join Jean Johnson, chair of the El Salvador committee at Holy Trinity (Georgetown) and M.J. Park, founder of Little Friends for Peace (in an interactive session), that highlights the recent peace-building work with Maria Madre de los Pobres parish in San Salvador, El Salvador. Share lessons learned, guiding principles, and tools and strategies for this important work.
Celebrate Global Twinning Gathering Presenters
Keynote Address
Kimberly Mazyck is currently the Church Relations Manager with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), where she conducts and supports a number of CRS’ partnerships with U.S. organizations. In 2008, she coordinated national speaking tours for CRS which highlighted CRS overseas programming including peace building, food security and HIV while featuring staff and partners from various countries. Kimberly joined staff at CRS in February 2005 as a Campaign Project Officer coordinating Catholic Relief Services’ Africa Rising: Hope and Healing campaign.
Before joining CRS, Kim spent five years in community development at a national children’s literacy organization, First Book. She also work at Human Rights Watch from 1993-1996 in the Africa division. She has over ten years of experience in community outreach and advocacy with particular attention to education and human rights issues in sub-Saharan Africa. She has also worked with nonprofit organizations to improve direct service, community outreach, volunteer support and resource development.
She was appointed to the Pax Christi USA council in 2010. Kim has a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She also studied theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
Twinning & Your Parish
Msgr. Raymond East is pastor of St. Teresa of Avila parish in DC where he has helped shepherd his parish’s six-year twinning relationship with St. Anthony (St. Antoine) located in the suburb of Vieux Bourg, Jérémie, Haiti. He helped begin the archdiocese’s twinning relationship with the Diocese of Jérémie and has visited Haiti several times with members of his parish. Msgr. East has had considerable experience encouraging and supporting parish and parishioner involvement in social outreach ministries.
Fr. Michael King is pastor of Jesus the Good Shepherd parish in Owings, MD. He is host pastor of the Celebrate Global Twinning Gathering and is an enthusiastic supporter of parish twinning. He has made several trips to Haiti where Jesus the good Shepherd parish has a twinning relationship with Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Point Sable), located on the Island of Grand Cayamite is just off the coast of the mainland of Haiti. Priorities for their twin parish include improving the medical facilities and transportation, and expansion of the school facilities.
Susan Timoney is assistant secretary for Pastoral Ministry and Social Concerns in the Archdiocese of Washington where she works closely with parishes on the Indicators of Vitality and ther New Evangelization. She served on the staff of Education for Parish Service (EPS) in Washington, DC for ten years. She is a retreat leader, speaker and author of articles on spirituality. Susan holds an S.T.D. from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
Workshops
Speakers for the workshops are subject to change.
Gilda Marcelin Beauzile born of Haitian parents and grew up in Haiti during her adolescent years. In the early 1980’s, she moved permanently to the United States where she finished schooling at the Academy of Notre Dame and the American University both located in Washington, DC. Gilda is married and has two boys ages 12 and 17. She became a parishioner of Jesus the Good Shepherd when she moved to Calvert County seven years ago.
Jay Brown is director of the Office of Justice and Peace for the Diocese of Richmond, VA and serves as the Lead Diocesan Staff for Global Solidarity and Haiti Ministries. He works with parish staff and volunteers of over 50 parishes in the Diocese of Richmond that has made a commitment to twin with a parish or community in Haiti, and oversees the Diocese of Richmond’s ministry of solidarity with the Diocese of Hinche. Jay is a graduate of Villanova University in Villanova, PA and the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC.
Jean Johnson is the Chairperson of the El Salvador Committee at Holy Trinity Church. She has managed international programs of the National Science Foundation for 32 years.
Pat Labuda has been involved for nearly 25 years with Haiti twinning projects through her parish, St. Francis of Assisi in Derwood, MD. She travels to Haiti several times a year, spending about two months a year there, helping to coordinate seven medical teams to the Diocese of Jérémie. She is a founder and executive director of Health and Education for Haiti, a 501C (3) nonprofit, focusing on improving the infrastructure in the Jérémie region of Haiti. She currently co-chairs the Archdiocese of Washington’s Haiti Twinning Advisory Committee.
Kim Lamberty is founder and president of Just Haiti, a fair trade coffee project that works with subsistence coffee growers in Haiti to improve the quality of their product and market the coffee to US consumers. She is also senior program advisor for the Catholic Relief Services Haiti Partnership Unit. She holds a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Doctor of Ministry in cross-cultural ministry from Catholic Theological Union (Chicago).
Larry Newman is a professional engineer who has been involved in Haiti twinning projects for eight years with two archdiocesan parishes. He has focused on water testing and treatment, sanitary sewer, structural design, solar electrical design and installation, and school construction.
Christie Newman is the founder of Hens for Haiti. Christie spent one year living as a volunteer with the Religious of Jesus and Mary in Gros-Morne, Haiti from September 2007 to August 2008. During this time, Christie was involved in a variety of activities from teaching English and organizing summer camps to hosting volunteer groups and overseeing development projects. But, more specifically, Christie worked to develop a business proposal for a local egg-laying facility (Poulaye). Christie received a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal and Poultry Sciences from Virginia Tech in May 2002 and earned her Master’s in the Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences from Virginia Tech in December 2010. Currently at CNFA, a DC-based non-profit in development agriculture, Christie is the Program Officer for the USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer program in Southern Africa.
Cynthia Norris is director of Social Concerns at St. John the Baptist Catholic Community in Silver Spring, which has had a twinning relationship since 1994 with St. Pierre's parish in Baraderes, Haiti. Cynthia is responsible for the oversight of her parish’s Haiti twinning project for the past eight years, including fund raising, financial management, and program growth and development, and visits Baraderes at least once a year. She holds a M.A. in Theology from St. Mary's University.
M.J. Park is a co-founder, along with her husband Jerry Park, of Little Friends for Peace (LFFP). For over 30 years LFFP has conducted Peace Camps for children initially in the Washington, DC area and most recently extending these programs into El Salvador. M.J. and Jerry Park were honored as Pax Christi’s 2008 Peace Educators of the Year.
Patricia Waddell is coordinator of St. Teresa of Avila Haitian Ministry (DC), under the spiritual direction of Msgr. Raymond G. East, Pastor, who has fostered a six-year twinning relationship with St. Anthony (St. Antoine) located in the suburb of Vieux Bourg, Jérémie, Haiti. Pat has also served as presenter at USCCB colloquium on "African / Caribbean’s Presence in US Catholic Church” and local high school social justice events.
Sherrie Wade is director of Social Concerns at St. Paul Catholic Church in Damascus, MD, where she has ministered to the parishioners of the parish since 1995. She has also completed the ESP (Education for Parish Service) certificate program a Scripture, Theology and Spiritual Formation Program for Lay Catholics.
