Announcing, the first TABCOM Christian Interpreter Network Support Meeting!

When: Saturday, February 16,2008
Where: St. John's Episcopal Church,
523 Hartford Turnpike (route 30),
Vernon, CT

(860) 872-0517, www.stjohnsvernonct.org
Time: 9:00 AM - 11 :AM

Topic: Developing a Support Network
Speaker: Anne Freeman, Director of TABCOM (The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts) Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministries

Cost: Free to members, $10 for non-members if you join at the meeting ($30 for the year), you do not have to pay the fee for the meeting

Light refreshments will be served and if anyone is interested, we can go out for lunch together afterwards. Child care provide upon request. Please RSVP regarding child care and whether or not you will attend no later than February 8th.

Contact Person:  Susie Borden -- susieborden@verizon.net

The first of four for this year, this support meeting will include both a skill building time as well as an opportunity to pray for each other and practice what we'll be learning about. Interpreting in church settings can be difficult and isolating, as can serving in deaf ministry. The need for healthy support is crucial! People who completed the survey told me that they were interested in learning more about this subject, so here's your chance! The skill building time will consist of discussion, question and answer, hands on activities, written exercises and teaching to help attendees better understand the need and importance of having a healthy support network and what you can do to develop and maintain it.

Our speaker is currently serving as the director of TABCOM Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministries, but had previously been with Vision New England for 14 years doing the same. She is state screened in Massachusetts and works as a free lance interpreter also. Prior to having her daughter four years ago, Anne taught on the subject of developing a support network in mental health settings where she worked and has a great deal of experience both teaching on this subject and 'practicing what she preaches' (how's that for an idiom!).

 

Come and learn how you can have a healthy support network so you are not going it alone!
Directions:
From I-84 East:
take exit 65 towards Vernon Center
Take a slight right onto Hartford Turnpike (route 30) go .9 miles and the church is on the left, up a hill
From I-84 West:
take exit 65 going towards Vernon Center Take a right onto Hartford Turnpike (route 30) go .4 miles and the church is on the left, up a hill