Dear Friend,

»Join Rev. Jim Wallis and hundreds of faith leaders for Pentecost 2006: Building a Covenant for a New America.

In Washington, expensive consultants get paid a lot of money to explain to political groups how to launch a new campaign - from the most high-powered speakers to the most eye-popping color schemes.

For our next major campaign at Sojourners and Call to Renewal, we're not turning to consultants. We're turning to you.

We officially invite you to come to Washington, D.C., June 26-28, 2006, to help us and our partners launch our next major initiative: The Covenant for a New America. The covenant is a bold, solutions-based anti-poverty vision and platform that transcends ideology. We hope you'll join us in Washington to deliver this covenant - a promise of hope and justice - to your legislators on Capitol Hill, and then learn how to build this promise of hope in your community back home.

Register Online Now for Pentecost 2006: Building a Covenant for a New America

Join hundreds of church leaders, lay leaders, faith-based social service providers, and activists young and old for three days of fellowship and putting faith into action to build the movement to overcome poverty in the U.S. and throughout the world. Join us for:

• Workshops empowering you to organize in your faith community and raise your prophetic voice in the media and with legislators.

• Inspirational speeches from grassroots leaders, media experts, and religious leaders such as Jim Wallis, sharing real solutions to poverty.

• Networking with the nation's foremost anti-poverty leaders, as well as prominent leaders and activists from your neck of the woods.

• Policy briefings and a Capitol Hill day to educate ourselves about poverty's root causes and demand real solutions from our lawmakers.

• An Emerging Leaders Track for participants 30 and younger, specifically focusing on how young people can raise their prophetic voices on campuses, in their places of work, in their faith communities, and in the world.

For more information about the conference, click here

Discounted early-bird registration rates are available now, so hurry! (Rates will go up on June 1.) For all three days, registration is only $175, and registration for emerging leaders is only $125. A limited number of scholarships will be available as well.

Building this covenant and the movement to overcome poverty will happen because of people such as you, who care enough to put your faith into action. We hope to see you at the conference.

Blessings,

Adam, Matt, Laurna, Duane, Christa, Nadia, and Yonce
The Call to Renewal and Sojourners Organizing and Policy Teams