Acknowledgements The Poverty Summit would not have been

possible without the generous support of the

following:

Baylor Student Government

Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative

Michael Riemer and Campus Programs

ARAMARK, Baylor Dining Services

Russell Caudle

Jordan Bellamy

We would like to thank Matt Burchett, Karin Klinger, and the Department of Student Ac-

tivities for their support; and Emily Hinkle for her vision and dedication.

Sponsored by the Department of Student Activities, Baylor Interdisciplinary

Poverty Initiative, Baylor Students for Social Justice, and Steppin’ Out

Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?—Job 30:25

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4:00 Keynote Address, Dr. Gaynor Yancey

5:00 Panel Discussion

Jon Singletary, Marianne Magjuka, Matt Schnarr, Jimmy Dorrell, Carrie Chrysogellos

6:00 Poster Sessions Begin in Draper Breezeway

Boxed Meals Available in Draper Breezeway

6:30 Breakout Sessions

7:30 Breakout Sessions

8:30 Closing Remarks, Bennett Auditorium

9:00 Concert Benefitting University Baptist Church „s Mission to Kenya at Common Grounds

Poster Sessions will be in the Draper Breezeway from 6:00-7:00.

ONE Campaign Campus Kitchens

UBC Kenya Benefit Open Table

Preemptive Love Campaign World Hunger Farm

Baylor Students for Social Justice Act Locally: Waco

Seeds of Hope Publishers Caritas

McLennan County Hunger Coalition

Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative

Art

What I Keep: Portraits and Statements from Members of the Church Under the Bridge, Photographs by Susan Mullally

Student photography by Macy Phenix, Mallory King, and Mary Beth Sudan. Video shot and produced by Jordan Bellamy.

Sponsored by the Department of Student Activities, Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative, Baylor Students for Social Justice, and Steppin’ Out

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Dr. Gaynor Yancey, Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean for Baccalaureate Studies, joined the faculty of the Baylor School of Social Work in August, 1999. She serves as Associate Director of the $1.1 million Congregational Com-munity Ministry Grant , funded by the CIOS Foundation. She was the Associate Director of the $2.1 million Faith & Service Technical Education Network (FASTEN) research project, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Dr. Yancey’s research and publication interests are in congregations and communities, poverty, diversity, social justice, racism, policy issues, and faith-based and congregational community devel-opment/organizing initiatives. Recent publications include Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work (formerly Social Thought) (2006)’ Middle School Journal (2006)’, NVSQ (2005); Social Work & Christianity (2005); Social Policy Journal (2005); and Social Work & Christianity (2004). Dr. Yancey was the first recipient of the Clovis Brantley Award for Out-standing Service in Christian Social Ministries in the United States. She was Professor of the Year in 1997-98 and 1998-99 at Eastern College in St. Davids, PA and she was selected as Outstanding Teacher by Baylor University in 2006. In 2004, Baylor University and The Texas Baptist Standard awarded her the Marie Mathis Award for Outstanding Life Achievement in Lay Ministry. Dr. Yancey received the DSW from the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania (1998), Advanced Certificate in Social Welfare Policy from the University of Pennsylvania (1993), Master of Social Work from Temple University (1988), Master of Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theologi-cal Seminary (1970), and B.A. in English and Business Educa-tion from Eastern Texas Baptist University (1967).

Dr. Gaynor Yancey, Keynote Address

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Dr. Singletary, (Ph. D., M.S.W., M.Div.) is the Director of the Center for Family and Community Ministries and Assistant Pro-fessor in the School of Social Work at Baylor University. He is co-director of the Strengthening Congregational Community Ministries project and the Baylor Shepherd Poverty Initiative, two projects that address issues of social justice in the context of faith. Before coming to Baylor, he served as a Mennonite Pastor and a community organizer addressing hunger and homeless-ness in Richmond, VA. He received his M. Div. from the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, and his M.S.W. and Ph. D. in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University. Most important to his journey is the relationship with his wonderful wife, Wendi, and his four children, Haden, Harper, Ainsley and Abbott.

Dr. Jon Singletary, Panel

Jimmy Dorrell is co-founder and Executive Director of Mission Waco. He grew up in Conroe, Texas and came to Waco in 1968 to attend Baylor University, where he majored in religion and received a BA in 1972. He graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with an M.Div. in 1978 and received his M.A. in Environmental Studies from Baylor in 1993. In 2001 he received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Dorrell is pastor of Church Under the Bridge and also teaches classes at Baylor Uni-versity and Truett Seminary in Waco. He has served on many boards including Teen Pregnancy Prevention Council, Parents as Teachers, Compassion Ministries of Waco, Waco Tribune Herald Board of Contributors, Census 2000 Special Housing Subcommittee Chair and currently the Christian Community Development Association. After receiving his degree from semi-nary in 1978, he and his wife Janet moved into the North Waco neighborhood where they began their call to incarnational min-istry, to live among the poor and help bring “good news” through relationships and empowerment opportunities. His passion for the poor and mobilizing the middle-class to become involved in the lives of the poor became the strategy for Mission Waco that continues today.

Jimmy Dorrell, Panel

More than Just a Day…

A Message from Matt Schnarr

As seen in our slogan, Steppin' Out was not intended to be “just a day” of service; we are trying to encour-age student and student groups to develop relationships with the peo-ple in the community with whom they work on the day of Steppin'

Out in hopes of creating future service opportunities. We want to bridge the gap between the Waco community and the Baylor commu-nity. For the first time, Steppin' Out will be hosting an off-campus celebration block party for the community and Baylor students. We will be having the block party at a local park in the community right after Steppin' Out. We expect to have a huge community turn out and our hope is that they Baylor students and community members can come together as one community for an afternoon of food and fellow-ship.

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Matt Schnarr, Panel

Originally from Conway Arkansas, Matt is currently a senior at Baylor University, with plans to graduate this coming May with a major in Communications. He has been involved with Baylor’s Steppin’ Out program for two years, and is currently the student director. Matt interned with the Center for Student Missions in Houston Texas. This urban ministry partnered with social service agencies throughout the city, where he was exposed to many re-alities of inner-city poverty and was able to work with the mar-ginalized in the city. At Baylor, he is currently involved with Church Under the Bridge and volunteers at Mission Waco’s after school program.

Marianne Magjuka, Panel

Marianne Magjuka serves as the Coordinator of Service Learning Initiatives in the Department of Student Activities. Originally from Indianapolis, Marianne received a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame. She taught with the Alliance for Catholic Education, a service teaching and graduate program, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and received her M.Ed. from Notre Dame in 2007. Before arriving at Baylor, Marianne worked in the Center for Leadership and Civic Education at Florida State Uni-versity, where she coordinated the Florida Alliance for Student Service AmeriCorps*VISTA Project.

Carrie received an MBA in Management from the University of

Utah, and a BBA from the University of Texas in Austin. From

December 14, 2006 to June 30, 2008 she was incarcerated for a

warrant that was issued in 1990, serving the time at a TDCJ

women’s prison in Gatesville. Her first brush with poverty was

during the two year period that the Social Security Administra-

tion required for evaluating and approving her disability claim.

She and her three sons spent several months in a shelter for vic-

tims of domestic assault in Michigan, after which the four lived

in a one bedroom apartment. After paying rent with the govern-

ment assistance that she received each month, Carrie was left

with $35 dollars to provide for her sons. After being released

from prison, Carrie was homeless in Waco until the middle of

September. She now works for Mission Waco.

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In a world filled with poverty where we are among the few who are rich, what is so bad about being stingy? What, if anything, do we owe to people around us who are poor? And why would we give them anything--some of our money, or time, or personal interest, or intellectual energies--if we did not owe it to them? We'll let the philosopher Thomas Aquinas help us think about the mystery of generosity.

Robert Kruschwitz Dr. Kruschwitz came to Baylor University in 2000 to become the first Director of the Center for Christian Ethics and Professor of Philosophy. He oversees the programs of the Center and serves as general editor of Christian Reflection, the Center's quarterly series in faith and ethics. At Baylor he teaches a popular ethics course on the Seven Deadly Sins. Previously, he taught for twenty-one years at Georgetown College (Kentucky) where he had chaired the faculty and the philosophy department. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. degree from Georgetown College. He co-edited The Virtues (Wadsworth, 1987), a pioneering anthology of recent essays on moral character, and his articles and reviews on ethics have appeared in Faith and Philosophy, Perspectives in Reli-gious Studies, Faculty Dialogue, The Thomist, and Christian Reflec-tion.

Ethics and Poverty, Dr. Robert Kruschwitz

This session will investigate why a living wage is one of the most effective poverty-fighting strategies.

Jerold Waltman Dr. Jerold Waltman is the R.W. Morrison Professor of Political

Science. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Dr.

Waltman held positions at Louisiana College and the University

of Southern Mississippi before coming to Baylor. His recent

books include Minimum Wage Policy in Britain and the United

States (2008), The Case for the Living Wage (2004), and The Politics

of the Minimum Wage (2000). He is currently writing a book on

the free exercise clause.

Politics and Poverty, Dr. Jerold Waltman

Phenix, Mary Beth Sudan, and Jordan Bellamy

Mary Beth Sudan is a BFA Photography/Studio Art Major from Waco, Texas. Mary Beth’s heart for people who fight everyday with the issues of poverty developed when she went on her first mission trip to New Orleans. She worked in a neighborhood where the hearts of the people did not reflect the conditions in which they lived. Since then, she has sought to capture the spirit of poverty over the conditions. Her pictures come from the Domini-can Republic and Uganda, where the poverty is breathtaking, but the spirit of God in the hearts of people is alive! Mary Beth asks that when you look at her images, you pray for the healing of these nations.

Jordan Bellamy is a junior double major in Great Texts and Film and Digital Media. He absolutely loves living in Waco, TX and feels confident that a great number of people genuinely care for the city and its inhabitants. He believes that there is a solution to poverty in Waco and even world wide, and is thrilled to partici-pate in the Poverty Summit. Film as one way to spread the word, but Jordan recognizes that we are most capable of solving this problem through our own interactions with the poor.

Mallory King is a senior Religion Major from Abilene Texas. After falling in love with photography over the past few years, Mallory is pursuing the beginnings of a small photography business. Her love and passion for photography began in Kenya, Africa, where she saw the true heart and lives of people through her camera lens. As a Christian, she feels that her call is to unite the community through awareness of our brothers and sisters who struggle. It is her prayer that the souls of the individuals photographed touch the souls of others.

Macy Phenix is a junior Graphic Design major from Hender-son, Texas. Art has played a key role in her faith, becoming one of her favorite modes of worship. This past summer, Macy and her sister spent two weeks in Niger, West Africa, where they visited a children’s camp. There is no running water or electricity in the village that houses the camp, and many of the children are malnourished due to unclean resources and con-tamination issues. Macy states, “I have been truly humbled to see how the Lord has blessed my life and the nation that we live in. I hope that these photographs will give you a sense of the beauty of God's precious creation that resides throughout every tribe and nation.”

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This breakout will begin with a survey of the issues (what char-acterizes poverty, both globally and domestically, including whether it’s more useful to think of poverty as a condition to be alleviated or as the outcome of a series of choices-and the con-straints under which those choices were made; and why it may matter); then introduce the economic way of thinking as one lens through which poverty questions can be viewed; give some examples of how economic reasoning can be applied (to educa-tion; marriage; fertility; and work); and consider some public policy responses (global, as well as domestic) to the existence of poverty.

Thomas Odegaard Dr. Odegaard has been at Baylor for 23 years, and is currently a

Senior Lecturer in Economics, coming from Capital University

in Columbus, Ohio. He completed his undergraduate work at

Luther College, and received his M. A. from Rice Univer-

sity. His primary teaching responsibilities are Principles of Eco-

nomics and The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination.

Economics and Poverty, Dr. Thomas Odegaard

Photograph taken by Susan Mullally

In this breakout session you will hear how Baylor students, fac-ulty and staff are assisting “the least of these” through applied classroom theory in real world application all within the context of Christian responsibility.

Rebecca “Becky” Kennedy is Associate Chaplain and Director for Missions in the Office of Spiritual Life. She has been working in the Division of Student Life at Baylor since 1997. In her current role, she oversees Baylor’s discipline-specific mission initiative that began in 2002 with a grant from the Lilly Foundation. This approach to missions aligns with Baylor’s mission which is to “Educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community” as well as Imperative VI of Baylor 2012 which is to “Guide all Baylor students through academic and student life programming to understand life as a stewardship and work as a vocation.”

Brian Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Electrical

and Computer Engineering at Baylor. For the last several years,

he has been directing his research activities, student mentoring,

and personal ministry efforts towards providing renewable elec-

tricity to impoverished people in developing countries. He has

worked in Kenya, Uganda, and Honduras in the deployment of

solar power, wind power, and small hydro power systems for

people at the "bottom of the pyramid". In 2004 he created a stu-

dent organization with engineering undergraduates called

"Engineers with a Mission" which has grown into a non-profit or-

ganization (though it is still awaiting its tax exempt status from

the IRS!).

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At Seeds of Hope Publishers we are working hard to provide a rich, accessible diet of ideas, information, and inspiration to nourish Chris-tians who are working for the day when all God’s children will enjoy enough to eat and the physical and spiritual resources to pursue happy, healthy, productive lives. www.seedshope.org

A website for people in Waco who are working to prevent and heal poverty in our community and around the world.

At www.actlocallywaco.org, you will find: Events and dates of interest: and resources regarding poverty in Waco

Act Locally: Waco is brought to you by Seeds of Hope Pub-

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Preemptive Love Coalition The Preemptive Love Coalition (PLC) is an organization dedicated to saving the lives of the 3,000 plus Iraqi children who are dying of heart disease due to Sadaam Hussein's gassings and poor healthcare. PLC has partnered with Jewish-Christian doctors in Israel who perform the surgeries

on these Kurdish children. Each surgery costs $7,000 dollars, bringing the total need to about 21 million dollars to save the lives of these children. The Coalition joins with the families and helps them through the rehabilitation period, all the while forming a re-lationship with them and sharing the love of Christ with them in a very hands on way. To raise funds, PLC sells handmade Iraqi shoes and various other products such as t-shirts, wristbands, and offers a donation program in which a gift can be given in honor of someone, along with opportunities for monthly giving. For more information, consult www.preemptivelove.org.

What I Keep

Artist Statement

This work explores ideas of class, race, ownership, value and

cultural identification. I collaborate with members of The Church

Under the Bridge in Waco, TX, a non-denominational, multi-cultural

Christian church that has been meeting under Interstate 35 for six-

teen years. Many of the people have had significant disruptions in

their lives, experienced periods of homelessness or incarceration,

addiction to drugs and alcohol, mental illness or profound poverty

and hopelessness. Many are working toward a new measure of sta-

bility and accomplishment through the programs and opportunities

offered through the church.

I ask each person what he or she keeps and why it is valued.

This is a collaborative project that is in the second year and has pro-

duced 48 images. The work is a series of life size portraits (24”x36”)

with brief statements about the person’s choice.

My portraits are made under Interstate 35 on Sunday morn-

ings.

Susan Mullally

Assistant Professor of Art

Baylor University

www.susanmullally.com

Medicine and Poverty, John Gill, MD, Aaron Morrow, MD and

Mike Hardin, Jr., MD

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In this session physicians will explore the effects of poverty on healthcare delivery in Waco, the US, and internationally. Areas of focus will include motivations for serving the poor in healthcare, challenges encountered, strategies for persevering, and next steps for personal action. Drawing on experiences in rural and inner city practice as well as missions in the developing world, personal vignettes will be used to illustrate many of these points. Time will be provided for Q&A..

Aaron Morrow, M.D. is a graduate of East Carolina Univer-sity School of Medicine. He is board certified in Family Medicine and has been in practice in Waco at the Family Health Center, Elm Avenue Clinic, providing services to the under-served of McLen-nan County. He has spent time at missionary hospitals in Kenya, Uganda, Ecuador, and Haiti.

John Gill, M.D. is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is board certified in Family Medicine and has been in practice for 15 years, 11 in rural South Texas, and for the last 4 years on the faculty of the Waco Family Medicine Resi-dency Program. The program is part of the Family Health Center, which has been providing services to the medically vulnerable of McLennan County since 1D. Mike Hardin, Jr. M.D. has practiced as a Family Physician since 1995. Initially in private practice for eight years, he most recently served the last four years as a missionary physician with Hospital Vozandes del Oriente, located on the edge of the Amazon in Shell, Ecuador. He returned to a position on the faculty of the Waco Family Medicine program two months ago.

Caritas of Waco provides emergency and supplemental assistance in the form of food, clothing, household items, utility, medication, rent and mortgage, as well as travel as-

sistance with few eligibility requirements. www.caritas-waco.org

Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative

The interdisciplinary studies program is designed to create a catalyst for social change around issues of poverty, civic engage-ment, and social and economic justice. Established in the fall of 2007, the initiative represents an opportunity for Baylor University fac-ulty, staff, and students to partner with the community, national, and global partners to address issues of poverty, civic engagement, and social and economic justice through discipline-based service learning, internships, research and evaluation. Supervised by faculty directors, Dr. Gaynor Yancey, associate dean for baccalaureate stud-ies and professor of church and community in the School of Social Work, and Dr. Jon Singletary, assistant professor of social work, and a faculty-directed steering committee, the initiative is under the ad-ministrative auspices of the Division of Student Life. Rosemary Townsend, Director of Business Affairs & Community Partnerships, serves as Coordinator. Both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in nature, the academic study of poverty from this perspective en-ables students to pursue professional careers with a critical social consciousness. The initiative provides research grant opportunities to Baylor faculty annually. Only the third undergraduate program of its kind, the Baylor Interdisciplinary Poverty Initiative is based on Washington and Lee University’s nationally recognized Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Ca-pability and funded through the generosity of the Bridgeway Chari-table Trust..

Baylor Students for Social Justice – Living Wage Campaign

Baylor Students for Social Justice (BSSJ) works to provide non-partisan debate and education on social justice issues and encourages students to participate in informed, democratic action. BSSJ became an official student organization in 2001. Since then, BSSJ sponsored the first AIDS awareness walk on campus, screened several films, organ-ized annual staff appreciation days, planned Bearstock, and held a World AIDS Day prayer vigil in both 2005 and 2006.

In 2004, Baylor Students for Social Justice began to advocate for a living wage for Baylor employees. BSSJ sponsored the Living Wage Forum, which included 5 students presenting stories of BU staff mem-bers whom they had interviewed. In 2005, the Baylor Living Wage Campaign was renamed the 1 John 3 Campaign. The Adequate Wage Task Force, co-chaired by Dr. Dub Oliver and Jenny Parker in 2006, rec-ommended “an incremental approach that increases the minimum wage to $7.00 per hour beginning June 1, 2007; to at least $8.00 per hour by June 1, 2008; to at least $9.00 per hour by June 1, 2009; and to at least $10.00 per hour by June 1, 2010, and that these minimums be indexed to Baylor salary increases over that same period. Additionally, beyond 2010, the Task Force recommends continuing to index the minimum wage to the average salary increases at Baylor.” The proposal primarily cites worker motivation and productivity and a Christian sense of jus-tice as factors to take into consideration.

BSSJ devoted the 2007-2008 school year to promoting awareness throughout the Baylor and Waco community about the 1 John 3 Cam-paign and garnering support for the Adequate Wage Task Force pro-posal. BSSJ members collected over 1400 signed petition postcards from the student body, about a dozen letters from Waco religious lead-ers and Baylor professors, and sponsored tables at several events, in-cluding the Tunnel of Oppression and Chapel. Though the proposal was not originally adopted as quickly as recommended, the Baylor Board of Regents voted in the summer of 2008 to raise the minimum wage for permanent service workers from $5.85 to $7.00 per hour.

Throughout the 2008-2009 school year, Baylor Students for So-cial Justice will continue to raise support within the Baylor family for the 1 John 3 Campaign. To ensure that the policy stays on track with the Task Force’s recommendations, BSSJ will lobby to raise minimum wage for permanent service workers to $9 per hour in 2009.