Divinity School To Host Forum on Church-based Community Development

The Divinity School will host a public forum on faith-based

community development on Monday, April 20, at 5 p.m. in the Braun Room in Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge.

The forum also will introduce the Summer Leadership Institute, a new continuing education program on churches, economic development, and neighborhood rebuilding for clergy and lay leaders, which will be held June 15-26 at the Divinity School and is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life.

The forum will feature two national leaders in urban revitilization and church-based neighborhood development: the Rev. Charles G. Adams, senior pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, and the Rev. Floyd H. Flake, pastor at Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, N.Y., and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's Sixth Congressional District (Queens).

Other speakers will include Sylvia Johnson, assistant director of the Hyams Foundation in Boston; Ronald F. Thiemann, Dean of the Divinity School; Preston N. Williams, professor of theology at the Divinity School and director of the Summer Leadership Institute; and D. Pulane Evans, program coordinator for the Institute.

For more information about the forum or the Summer Leadership Institute, call 496-3586.