WORLD POVERTY SYMPOSIUM
"CONNECTING THE DOTS..."
at the
GLOBAL VILLAGE
APRIL 13 - 14, 2013
(Registration Required)
Explore poverty through panel experiences and discussion. Learn about what the needs are, what is being done and who is doing it. Connect with others who are working to help bring justice to our world. Learn more about the Global Village
and what it offers.
Panel experiences from Haiti, Vietnam, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
Peace Corp, Lost Boys of the Sudan, Women in Poverty and a World Cafe.
Learn more by clicking HERE
and what it offers.
Panel experiences from Haiti, Vietnam, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,
Peace Corp, Lost Boys of the Sudan, Women in Poverty and a World Cafe.
Learn more by clicking HERE
Camp Grier Global Village & Training Center
Reaching out to the world through education, problem solving and hands on experiences.
The Global Village is about exciting your imagination - an opportunity to learn with hands and heart possibilities about making the world a better place for our friends and neighbors around the globe.
Camp Grier Global Village
Mission Teams… will have opportunities for hands-on training, team building and preparation for their mission trips. This learning experience will be set in a context typical of the physical and cultural environments which they will encounter.
Camp Grier…campers will have the opportunity to experience the daily lives of people living in Haiti and Guatemala. They will learn about the challenges faced by people living in those countries and about the possibilities of becoming involved—today, tomorrow, as young people, or as adults – in helping to meet those challenges.
Camp Visitors…walking tours of the Global Village and learning through on-site interpretive materials – about what we aspire to and how they might participate.
To learn more, please contact Camp Grier 828.668.7793 or cgrier@campgrier.org
Presbytery of Western North Carolina
2012 Mid-Hi Retreat Service/Work Project
November 10, 2012
On Saturday, November 10th the Global Village hosted 90+ middle school youth and their counselors—a test if you will! The youth came in 3 waves of 30—to learn with their minds, hearts and hands about some of the conditions in which folks live in developing countries.
The Global Village was staffed by volunteers— Barley Krieger, Emma Van Scoy, Doug Michel, Pat Durham, Judy Nebrig and Buzz Durham, assisted by Presbyterian Youth Council leaders and Josh Evans from Camp Grier. Click here for more info.
The Global Village was staffed by volunteers— Barley Krieger, Emma Van Scoy, Doug Michel, Pat Durham, Judy Nebrig and Buzz Durham, assisted by Presbyterian Youth Council leaders and Josh Evans from Camp Grier. Click here for more info.
Update from the Global Village
February 28, 2013
Slideshow of Global Village Events 2012
Haitian Yard Garden at the Dining Hall
From a dream to reality!
