Schedule: Monday, Oct. 3
Time: 7-8:30 p.m.
Tuition: FREE (donations welcome!)
Location: Raindrop Foundation San Antonio; 4337 Vance Jackson Rd., Ste. #203, SATZ 78230
Join us for a time of faith-warming storytelling as folks from around San Antonio share their experiences of how faith ‘made all the difference.’
The evening will start with 4 storytellers, then we’ll enter into a time of community sharing for those who’d like to relay ‘faith-lifting’ stories.
Natarsha Prince Sanders (host) works as the Co-founder and Executive Director of Centering the Sacred, LLC. She graduated from Hollins University and North Carolina Central University with a BA in Philosophy and History and a M.A in Teaching respectively. She is currently pursuing a D.Ed.Min (doctorate in educational ministry) from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. As a preacher, teacher and spiritual guide, Natarsha centers her work at the intersection of wholeness, education and liberation. She is also passionate about the arts and inclusion. She resides in Kerrville, Texas with her husband, Lorenzo A. Watson.
Officer Doug Greene has been a member of the San Antonio Police Department for 11 years. He has served as a public information officer for the past six years in the department’s Media Services Unit and recently took on a new role as a Community Engagement Officer. Officer Greene spearheads the department’s Success Through Respect and Handle with Care programs as well as The Brave Cowboy presentation. Prior to joining the department, Officer Greene worked in the TV production industry for ten years. Officer Greene has an Associate Degree in Radio, TV, and Film, and a BA in Communications-Media. In 2016, Officer Greene was named Officer of the Year for SAPD. He currently serves as a board member for Community Bible Church. Officer Greene serves as parliamentarian for the San Antonio Black Police Officers Coalition. He is married to his lovely wife Christine of 18 years. They have three children and two dogs.
Contemporary artist Rex Hausmann is a San Antonian, who started his art education at UTSA graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design on scholarship with a BFA in painting (2006) and an MFA in painting (2016). His artist philosophy remains simple “Grow Where You Are Planted” displayed behind Phebe, the bougainvillea, on the front his family buildings at The Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community in down town San Antonio. Rex has shown and lectured nationally and internationally, appearing in many speaking functions including TEDx San Antonio at Trinity University , McNay Museum of Art, The San Antonio Museum of Art, and The University of Texas at San Antonio as well as The Spencer Museum of Art. He has shown work at The Smithsonian in Washington DC, The Institute of Texan Cultures, Neiman Marcus, The Lawrence Art Center and The Cloister at Sea Island Resort. He has spoken on National Public Radio many times across the United States. His home base remains in San Antonio, Texas at The Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community where he gardens, teaches and paints daily and enjoys a cigar with friends every so often.
Dr. Lopita Nath is the Chair of the History Department and the Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Nath specializes on migration in Asia and issues of human displacement, refugees, and human rights. Her current research is on the Bhutanese refugee resettlement in the United States, and has worked with refugees in the camps in Nepal and in the U.S. She serves on the Catholic Charities Refugee Advisory Board. She is a native of India and of the Hindu faith tradition and has been a strong advocate of interfaith understanding in San Antonio.
Mehmet Oguz is originally from the southeast of Turkey. He calls himself a lifelong learner, a listener, an optimist, and wants to be kind when he grows up. He served as volunteer Executive Director of the Dialogue Institute of San Antonio between 2011-2018. He established interfaith and intercultural connections in the San Antonio community. He wants to contribute one or another way to eliminate disunity, ignorance, and poverty in society. He serves as a board member of Raindrop Foundation and Interfaith San Antonio Alliance. He served as a board member of SOL Center for more than 7 years. He is a founding member of Raindrop Ensemble, an active member of MLK Interfaith Service Organization Committee, ICAN, City of San Antonio Faith Based Initiative and volunteering at San Antonio Food Bank and Corazon Ministries. He holds a BS in Mathematical Engineering, MA in International Relations with a focus on conflict transformation, MPA with focus on nonprofits. He is the father of two awesome daughters, husband of a beautiful wife. He is a certified data scientist and works as director of digital learning and data science.
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