October 2, 2009
BELMONT NEWS
White House Staffer Shares Insights on Faith-Based, Neighborhood Partnerships
Joshua DuBois, who serves as special assistant to the President and executive director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, spoke in Belmont's Massey Performing Arts Center Wednesday as part of the Fall 2009 Spiritual Development speaker series.
A native of Nashville, DuBois noted that he was pleased to be in his hometown and laughed about the "family reunion" he was having in MPAC as the audience was populated with siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and DuBois' mother and stepfather, who serves as senior pastor of St. John's AME in Nashville.
The bulk of his conversation centered on his work with the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as he commented that the Obama administration seeks to partner with community-serving institutions. "We in the government must connect with the real change agents," he said, adding that churches, temples, mosques, nonprofits and schools are leading the way in impacting needs on the local level. Click here for more on this story.
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