BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3691246:Event:22256 DTSTAMP:20120530T175011Z SUMMARY:Rev. Cornell Brooks At First UU Church, February 5, 2012 DESCRIPTION:The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County, 3 5 Cleveland Street in Orange, New Jersey will welcome the Rev. Cornell Brooks, President and CEO of The New Jersey Institute for Social Just ice, as its featured speaker at Sunday worship on Feb. 5 at 10:30 AM. The public is invited.\n \nThe theme of the sermon will be “An Unce rtain Recovery, Unrealized Dreams and Unrepentant Hope.”  Rev. Broo ks will be preaching about a seeking a just economic recovery as well finding the strength to pursue justice when both jobs and even hope ar e in short supply.\n \nThe Rev. Brooks, a fourth-generation ordained minister, was honored as a Martin Luther King Scholar at Boston Univer sity School of Theology. He later earned a JD from Yale Law School. He currently serves on the Boards of East Orange General Hospital and th e NJN/Public Broadcasting Authority. He previously served as senior co unsel for the Federal Communications Commission and as a US Department of Justice trial attorney, where he secured at the time the largest g overnment settlement for victims of housing discrimination.\n \nThe N ew Jersey Institute for Social Justice was founded ten years ago in Ne wark as an urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the a dvancement of New Jersey’s urban areas and residents. It has advocat ed and helped pass legislation to aid previously incarcerated persons to rebuild their lives and has created WomenBuild, a program that trai ns women in non-traditional fields of employment.\n \nThe First Unita rian Universalist Church of Essex County is a life-affirming liberal r eligious community that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with at various times and places. We believe tha t personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final autho rities in religion. And that in the end religious authority lies not i n a book or person or institution, but in ourselves. Please join us Su nday mornings at 10:30 AM, September though June, for fellowship, musi c and conversation.\n \nThe First UU Church has been at its location just off Main Street in Orange nearly 120 years. In 2007 it hosted a c elebration of the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of the Orange School system and more recently a benefit concert for Haitian relief. A number of organizations share its facilities, including religious gr oups and Lanbi, a Haitian community center. The Rev. Darrell Berger is on the Board of Directors of Valley Arts, which is dedicated to the r evitalization of the community.\n \nFor more information call the chu rch at 973-674-0010 or visit www.essexuu.org.\n\nFor more information visit http://www.millburn-shorthillsnavigator.com/events/rev-cornell-b rooks-at-first-uu-church-february-5-2012 DTSTART:20120205T153000Z DTEND:20120205T163000Z CATEGORIES:worship, service LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Church of Essex County WEBSITE:http://essexuu.org URL:http://essexuu.org CONTACT:973-674-0010 ORGANIZER;CN="First UU Church of Essex County":http://www.millburn-sho rthillsnavigator.com/profile/FirstUUChurchofEssexCounty ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/i3ZEyDwR6676N 5dfcnnsH8W4J6fqVXQ5J4YHVUUEIRVITQ1JgUS8tH7iZzKDM1ztylfFBXHYxHGTmcw0U-I qpFS6bh2-AHg9/naviprofilepic.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="First UU Church of Essex County":http://www.millburn-shorthillsnavigator.com/p rofile/FirstUUChurchofEssexCounty END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR