AIDS Education Month: Faith Leaders and Community Summit

This will be the 4th annual convening of faith leaders in Philadelphia for the purpose of confronting HIV/AIDS and equipping these community leaders with the tools to promote HIV prevention, testing and linkage to care in their daily work. The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., Keynote Speaker, former pastor of President Barack Obama is a revered theological scholar and author. For 36 years, Dr. Wright served as Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where he helped facilitate HIV/AIDS outreach projects. Workshops Include: ** HIV 101 Medical Update: “Holding On for the Cure” ** Teen Pregnancy & HIV ** An Epidemic of Poverty, Injustice and Despair: How the ** Faith Institutions Respond ** Ministering to Those with HIV (Ethics & Confidentiality) ** Youth, Faith, Sex and Sexuality ** How to Set Up an HIV Ministry ** Women, Faith & HIV ** Homiletics: Preaching HIV/AIDS ** Nutrition & HIV ** Evangelism in Communities Impacted by HIV ** Pastoral Self Care Workshop ** Text as a Weapon (Spirituality and Trauma) ** Prayer as Healing (A Dialogue between Pastors and Doctors) THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY. For more information, please contact us via email at aem@fight.org or call us at (215) 985-4448 ext. 200