(Near left: Pastor Josephina and Pastor Deolinda. Far left: Guests at WP potluck lunch with our visitors from Angola.)

Earlier this month in collaboration with Church World Services, Women's Perspective sponsored an interfaith potluck lunch featuring guest speakers from Angola, Pastor Josephina and Pastor Deolinda. Angola recently ended 27 years of civil war, and our guests were in the U.S. to study methods of post-war conflict resolution and reconciliation. Josephina and Deolinda exchanged views and experiences in their war-torn country with 30 guests, who described the afternoon as eye-opening and moving.

As part of Women's Perspective's Interfaith Initiative, this lunch was the first in a series of quarterly events that will bring together women from a variety of spiritual traditions. The events will take place in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Please email us if you would like to be included in future interfaith lunches.

(Left: Julie Spahr)

Encountering the harsh realities of the developing world altered Julie Spahr's world view dramatically, prompting her to connect money, her passion for art, and her spirituality in exciting new ways.

In the 1980s, Julie traveled to Mexico on a social justice trip through her church. Later she traveled to Haiti with Women's Perspective. In Haiti, Julie visited Mother Teresa's home for the destitute and dying in Port au Prince, where she helped care for a woman suffering from tuberculosis. Never having done this kind of service, and she felt taken over by a greater power and recalled, "There was a moment when I saw this woman lying on her back with her arms outstretched like Jesus on the cross, and I realized I was ministering to the Christ in her."

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