Jeremy John, the Grassroots Conference coordinator, sent us a link the blog of Larry Kamphausen. Kamphausen, a Chicago minister who attended our grassroots conference, blogged his way through much of the conference. Whie Jubilee USA doesn't endorse all of the comments made from Kamphausen's blog, we certainly appreciate the candor with which he wrote. Go to Priestly Goth Blog
Also, Gado Mwampembwa, Tanzanian political cartoonist now living/working in Kenya, was one of our featured speakers at the conference. Gado, as he is most popularly known as, used his illustrations as a point of departure to discuss a wide range of issues from corruption and politics to poverty and death. He e-mailed us early this morning to let us know he returned home safely after spending 36 hours en route to his Nairobi home. He also said that he would send us political cartoons from time to time to post to our website, so stay tuned in the coming months for some of Gado's work.
If you missed Gado's conference workshop, you can still view illustrations from his hilariously informative Powerpoint presentation.
Thank you for the link and the kind word about my comments on the conference.
I will very much look forward to continuing to see Gado's work here. As I said he was one of the highlights of the conference for me.
Posted by: Larry Kamphausen | June 27, 2007 at 07:19 PM