Adult Forum
- May 11: Community Issues — Financial Planning for Beginners
- For those who want to know the basic concepts of charitable giving. Member
Scott Swanson is a Certified Financial Planner who has worked in the financial
services industry for 30 years. This is presented to create an awareness of
the possibilities in conjunction with the church's Bridge to the Future mission
program.
- May 18 Appeal Festival - No Adult Forum
- May 25 Contemporary Issues — Exploring Issues of Human Rights
in the International Scene. Immigration Rights
- Member Matthew Thompson of Tindall & Foster, will discuss some of the
local programs that assist refugees and asylees in the United States, including
background information of the legal standard of refugee or asylee status and
how the US law subscribes to the UN standard for refugees. He will also provide
information on the current changes to immigration matters relating to the
restructuring of the INS, now the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
in the new Department of Homeland Security. Matthew has been an immigration
attorney for seven years with Tindall & Foster. He is graduate of University
of Houston Law Center and Southern Methodist University. He has worked with
the INS and the Department of State in refugee resettlement.
- June 1 Community Issues
- Joyce Greenfield of CanCare will speak on cancer suvivorship.
Last updated:
2003-05-09