I will be retiring this summer from my work as Executive Director of the Friends of International Friendship Park. If you'd like to join the August 14 celebration in downtown San Diego, you can buy tickets here. If you'd like to support the organization's ongoing work, you can make a donation here. Thank you! John I was ordained as a minister in the United Methodist Church in 1992. But long before I became a pastor, I discovered my calling as an activist through my deep involvement in the...

In 1992 I was appointed by Bishop Jack Tuell to be the pastor of a little church in Calexico, California -- my first assignment in the...

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