 Well, greetings, everyone. My name is Emma Brewer-Wallin. I'm the Minister of Environmental and Economic Justice for the Southern New England Conference. And I'm really delighted to be here today with two of our new partners, Reverend Rich Gamble and Eliza Pennick of the Justice Leadership Program. And they're here to tell us about an exciting new partnership that we have, the Jubilee Justice Leadership Program. Rich, do you want to start us off by sharing a little bit about how JLP came into being? Sure. So about 2012, we began a program for young adults. It was an intensive program. They lived together in community. They worked full-time at a social justice agency. They participated in the life of a congregation, and they took classes, all of that, every week. It was a very intensive program, but it was transformational for a lot of the people who participated. While we were out selling the program, seeking people who would be interested in participating, folks came up to me and said, well, it's great that you have this intensive program for young adults, but what do you have for people who are older and don't need to go off and live in a community with other participants? What do you have for people like me? And so we then developed the Jubilee Program, which mirrors the young adult program in many ways, but it's created to be useful and not overly demanding for people who are older and have other commitments. So the part of the young adult program that we kept was participating in agencies that do justice in the community. We also kept the classes, and we kept a part of the program we called Spiritual Sojourning, which is a peer-based group where people get together and talk about what they're doing and work on things that they're struggling with. It is part of the program, or as they work these things out in their own congregations, we ask the participants to be active in their own congregations as well. So we put all of that together in a program that hopefully isn't too demanding on older adults, and we ran that program for two years here in Seattle where we're located, and that was an in-person program. And then COVID came along and we realized that there's lots of benefits of being able to have a program that could operate remotely on the internet, and so we regeared the program to fit the internet, and that's the jubilee form that we now have, and that allows us to partner with people anywhere in the country, including people in New England. Awesome. Thank you for sharing that, and I so appreciate some of the ways that the Justice Leadership Program really intersects with the four-fold values of the Southern New England Conference, discipleship and connection with the local church, commitment to justice, commitment to transformative leadership in our congregations and communities, and now this chance to partner together and to partner with agencies in our communities as well. Eliza, could you help us understand who this program is for? If someone's watching this, how might they know if they should apply? Yeah, yeah, it's a great question. You know, it's a program that's really for anyone who is looking to integrate their faith and justice work, and we say anyone because it really is an introductory course. I think a lot of people out there might shy back and be like, oh, I just don't know that much, and this is a program for people who want to get started in justice work and aren't sure how to do that. Provides that foundation to get people going and learning a little bit more about progressive Christianity and what the different forms of social change are and how they can get involved. That's super exciting. So how can someone get involved? What should they do next? Yeah, so our website, which is justiceleadership.org, has the application. It actually has two applications on it, and so you want to make sure that you click on the one that is specific to Southern New England, and that application helps us learn a little more about you and what you're looking for in the program. And the program is for six months. The next one coming up in the fall, it does bridge the holidays. So we actually kind of stretch it out a little more than six months because we take a break over the holidays. That sounds great. Rich, is there anything else you want to add about this upcoming cohort and these folks who are specifically coming from Southern New England? Well, we're excited to partner with the Southern New England conference. We've worked out of our own conference for some time, but it's exciting to be in a whole new location and see all these new opportunities for people to get involved. It'll be fun for me to find out about new organizations that are doing justice and how they work. It'll be exciting for us as a program to be able to have a lot of people from various places. Right now, most of our people in this current cohort are from Pacific Northwest, with one exception, a person in Texas. So we're eager to see even more about how we can push this model into a nationwide model. Me too. As Eliza said, our applications are open now for the Southern New England Conference cohort of the Jubilee Justice Leadership Program. You can be in touch with me if you have more questions and we hope to hear from you.