Clergy Leadership Network seeks to encourage more
progressive religious leaders to join with others in "working for national
leadership change."
We have received this letter, with the request that we
share it with members and friends of the Witherspoon Society. We encourage
you to consider it seriously. [3-11-04]
Dear Friends
of Peace and Justice.
I am writing to
you to solicit your help in making people aware of a new organization,
"Clergy Leadership Network."
Let me first
introduce myself. I am Ed Weisheimer, a minister in the Christian Church
Disciples of Christ. I am a past president of the Disciples Peace
Fellowship, a congregational pastor for twenty years, an associate regional
minister and the regional minister for the Disciples in Indiana for
seventeen years. I am retired now (mostly) and I am doing some volunteer
work for the Clergy Leadership Network. In that capacity I am writing to you
and other Peace Fellowships seeking to find ways that you can help publicize
CLN and its major national gathering of clergy they are planning in
Cleveland , May 16th-18th.
First let me
invite you to find our more about CLN by visiting their web site. CLN's web
site address is
www.clnnlc.org.
There you will learn who is their Board of Directors and what are their
purposes. It is a 527 non governmental organization working for national
leadership change. It is a voice and a channel for persons wanting to
respond to the crisis in our country's leadership.
A marvelous array of
leaders will make presentations at the national gathering in Cleveland. And
ways will be explored as to how clergy and laity can help in the urgent
effort to bring about a leadership change.
Could/Would you send
our publicity materials to your members? Could/Would you supply CLN with
your address list so it could do mailings? Could/Would you link us on your
web site, or vice versa. CLN is prepared to pay the cost of the publicity
efforts. I hope that you will give this request your utmost attention.
Let me close by giving
you my e-mail address and the address of CLN's Executive Director.
CLN Executive Director,
Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson,
bbpeterson@Verizon.net
Rev. Ed Weisheimer, a
regional coordinator,
e.weisheimer@worldnet.att.net
Thank you for your
consideration of these matters.
Peace,
Ed Weisheimer
