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Thanks to many of you for joining our August Zoom Gathering and a special thanks to Jillian Foster, our guest presenter. Here is a link to the recording - you can fast forward to about minute 24:30, when the gathering actually begins.
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Don leads us through Sowing Seeds, A practical approach to Parish Twinning from discerning how and where through acts of advocacy followed by lots of good conversation about individual twinning experiences.
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Jump in at around minute 13 when the meeting actually begins.

The topic for this gathering was the Immigration Parole Program through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that provides a process "through which nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and their immediate family members, may request to come to the United States in a safe and orderly way".

Our guest speaker was Yer Vang, JD, Legal Director for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Yer will took us through the steps for U.S. citizens to sponsor a traveler from these countries and the steps required of the citizens from those four countries.

Tennessee Register article published 27 Feb features two parishes in the Nashville Diocese with twinnings in Haiti through PTPA.

PTPA Friends,
Thank you to the 74 people who joined us for our PTPA Zoom gathering last evening! We were very pleased with the turnout and realize that many of you were not able to join due to various reasons. You can watch it by clicking the link title above.