This month's Composting Quakerism looks at the Peace Testimony and Youth. Our guest is Leslie Murray Quaker youth minister at North Valley Friends who talks with us about her youth group and how they work through questions of peace and social justice.

The iTunes music store has approved our podcast and now the show can be subscribed to and downloaded there. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/quakercompost   

Today we have guest Cherice Bock with us talking to us about the recent conference "Christians and Immigration in a Land of Contradictions" that Northwest Yearly Meeting co-hosted with Mennonite Central Committee and George Fox Universities Center for Peace and Justice.

Some of the things referenced in this podcast.

Voz - Worker Building in Downtown Portland with Taco Truck http://goo.gl/maps/pB6I 

During the conference they also visited the Virginia Garcia Center in Hillsboro (http://www.virginiagarcia.org/), and The Canby Center (http://thecanbycenter.org/).

Frozen Dreams: Documentary on Immigration put together by American Friends Service Committee (order it here http://afsc.org/story/la-migra): />

Other resources:
The Oregon New Sanctuay Movement: http://www.oregonsanctuary.org/
Legal Aid Services of Oregon: http://www.lawhelp.org/program/694/index.cfm
Bridging Cultures: this article tells a little about their work http://www.rop.org/community-where-everyone-feels-at-home

In this episode we talk a little about this year's Pastor's Focus Conference from Hood River where Todd Hunter came and spoke to us about changing times and the church. We interviewed four pastors who attended to get their impressions.

Thanks for listening.

I wanted to post the backlog of podcasts we have available. Here there are so you can download the MP3 episodes and listen at your leisure:

• Empty Seats at the Table Part 2: Where are the Women Side 1? // June 17, 2010
• Empty Seats at the Table Part 2: Where are the Women Side 2?

And since you can tell it is part two, here is a link to part one and the rest of the episodes we’ve done so far as well:

• Empty Seats at the Table Part 1: Where are the Women? // March 12, 2010
• Quakers and the Peace Testimony // January 8, 2010
• Making Space for Leadership // November 6, 2009
• Composting Quakerism Introduction // October 9, 2010

After a summer break and some changes to our co-hosting team we are gearing up for another year of some tasty podcasts. This summer, as many of you may already know, Jason Minnix one of our co-hosts moved with his family to TX. We look forward to trying to have him on the podcast from time to time. Upcoming podcasts will also be uploaded here and on iTunes. Thanks for listening.