Day on the Hill 2025

Join us!

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

Day on the Hill

 

We'll gather for fellowship, hear from speakers, learn about JRLC's policy priorities and get advocacy tips before heading up the hill to the Capitol for more programming in the Rotunda and visits with your lawmakers.

Don't miss this incredible day of interfaith advocacy for social justice!

*A donation of $50 to help with event costs is requested, but optional! After registering for the event on this page, you will be redirected to our donation page -- if you are unable to donate, simply exit out of the donation page and your registration will still be recorded.*

Here's our agenda for the day:

8:30-9:30AM   Registration and gathering

  • Coffee, juice, pastries

 

9:30AM           Opening Prayer & announcements

 

9:45AM           Keynote Address

  • Lee Stuart, retired CHUM Director (bio below)

 

10:15AM         Issue Briefings

  • Child tax credit
  • Veterans' education benefits
  • Gambling harm mitigation

 

10:45AM         Directions on buses

 

11:00AM         Building the Coalition

 

11:15AM         District level meetings

 

11:45AM         Go to the capitol

 

12:00PM         Attendees find lunch, attend legislator appointments whenever they’re scheduled

 

1:30PM           Rotunda Wrap Up

 

2:00-4:00PM   Buses running back to Central Presbyterian

 

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Lee Stuart, keynote speaker 

After academic training in Alaska and California as an ecologist, and fully anticipating a scientific career, Dr. Lee Stuart took a six-month break between post-doctoral appointments that turned into decades of working with and for interfaith organizations. She was one of the co-founders of the SHARE (Self-Help and Resource Exchange) food assistance program in San Diego in 1983 and went on to introduce the program in southwest Virginia in 1984 and start it in the South Bronx in 1985. In 1992, she joined the staff of South Bronx Churches, having helped establish that organization from her congregational base, the Catholic Community of St. Augustine. An affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation, SBC included thirty-five congregations representing 13 Christian denominations and a mosque. From 2006 – 2012 Dr. Stuart worked in international and domestic community development programs, returning to interfaith work in 2013 as Executive Director of CHUM in Duluth until her retirement in 2022. CHUM, an interfaith organization with forty member congregations, operates Duluth’s largest adult and family emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, a food shelf serving thousands of households, street outreach, and permanent supportive housing for two groups experiencing chronic and long-term homelessness – families with children and seniors.

When is the event?

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 08:00 AM

Location

Central Presbyterian Church
500 Cedar St.
St. Paul, MN 55101
United States
Google map and directions

Contact

Annamarie Adkins ·

Will you come?