PANA Institute for Leadership Development

First Annual GTU Filipino Film Festival offers showings every evening, Sep. 8-13, on the campus of Pacific School of Religion.

"Pasilip" (which means "to peep, to take a quick look") is the apt name for this festival, for it gives participants a glimpse into the lives and stories of the Pilipino through film. Each evening will have a Q & A/Discussion session after the screening. NO COVER, FREE SNACKS!For details, contact: Jeffrey Acido, 808.295.6787jeffrey.acido@gmail.comVenue: Pacific School of Religion, 1798 ...

4:00 p.m.
223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley

Professor Rebecca Kim of Pepperdine University speaks about her book, God's New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Campus Evangelicals and Reverse Korean Missionaries in America.

The book focuses on second-generation Korean Americans, who make up the majority of Asian American evangelicals, and explores the factors that lead college-bound Korean American evangelicals—from integrated, mixed race neighborhoods—to create racially segregated religious communities on campus. Kim illuminates an emergent ...

FST professor Joanne Doi leads a 3.0 unit course that includes the PANA Pilgrimage to the Sacramento River Delta.

The PANA Institute would like to invite Asian American and Pacific Islander pastors and congregational leaders to take part in a Bay Area Consultation of Leaders of API Faith Communities, called “Journeying Together Toward an Empowering and Transforming Ministry.” 

The consultation will provide an opportunity for Asian American and Pacific Islander congregational leaders to come together across ethnicities, denominations and generations to share the stories, key questions and transforming practices of our congregations.  We have much to teach and learn from each other. ...

A ceremony led by members of the Network on Religion and Justice for API LGBTs.

An educational pilgrimage, led by Dr. Joanne Doi, to trace the footsteps of the API people who worked as immigrant or migrant rural labor in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta area. We journey to remember the rural labor experience, to regain our collective memory, to heal from the pain of transnational migration, and reconnect to history.

For more information:

http://www.panainstitute.org/pilgrimage-sacramento-river-delta

A gathering convened by the Network on Religion and Justice for API LGBTs

Join the PANA/PSR contingent in the annual sacred walk organized by Indian People Organizing for Change and the Vallejo Intertribal/SSP&RIT to pray and remember the native ancestors that lived on this land for thousands of years. The walk will be led by traditional Native American leaders and Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhists. We will walk and pray with our ancestors in areas where Shellmounds and sacred sites have been desecrated by development. Pre-walk preparation:

• Kick-off blessing and community potluck on Friday, November 14th, 6 pm, at Intertribal Friendship House, 523 ...

Join PANA as we tour the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. This immigration station was the port of entry for 1 million immigrants from 1910-1940, particularly coming from Asian countries of China, Japan, India, Korea, Russia, and the Philippines. The station was designed primarily to control the flow of Chinese into the country, who were officially barred from entry with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 until it was repealed in 1943. Immigrants were processed, detained or deported from this location. During WWI and WWII it was also a ...