LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth |
In Brief |
Kent Sussex AIDS Program Has Medicaid AIDS Waiver
Children and Families First is pleased to announce that its Kent and Sussex AIDS Program (KSAP) is currently able to provide individual and group counseling around mental health and substance abuse issues to those eligible for Delaware's Medicaid AIDS Waiver Program. KSAP is the first approved service provider in Kent and Sussex Counties. Clients interested in receiving counseling must contact their case manager for authorization. If clients are not sure who their case manager is, please call Children and Families First at 856-2388 and ask for KSAP. Children and Families First is a not-for- profit social and mental health organization with eleven sites in Delaware including Georgetown, Seaford, Dover and Milford. Services include: counseling, workplace services, parent education/ support services, foster care, adoption, residential treatment center for teens, programs to prevent teen pregnancy and KSAP. In addition to individual and group counseling, KSAP offers outreach and educational programs to prevent HIV/AIDS. For more information, call KSAP at 302-856-2388. MCC Service of Healing At its Healing Service on August 1 at 6:00 PM, MCC Rehoboth will welcome Dr. James Lopresti, who will lead the congregation on a journey exploring the interaction of mental health and spiritual wholeness. Dr. Lopresti is a therapist at the Brookland Pastoral Center in Washington, DC, where he integrates psychotherapy and spirituality in his practice. He is exploring the establishment of a pastoral center here in Rehoboth Beach. Dr. Lopresti, the former clinical director at Whitman-Walker of Northern Virginia, has also served as a Jesuit priest and seminary professor. MCC Rehoboth offers positive, affirming Christian spirituality to all peoples with special outreach to the Rainbow community. The Church is a mission of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (UFMCC), celebrating 30 years as the world's oldest Christian denomination ministering to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community. MCC Rehoboth is located on Holland-Glade Road (road 271) and is the first white building on the left immediately after the Little League field. For additional information about special services or upcoming events, contact the church via phone 302.226.9026, or e-mail: MCCReho@aol.com. Unitarian's New Minister The Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware will welcome their first permanent minister on Sunday, August 1. Reverend Keith Goheen was appointed to the new, growing liberal religious congregation by the Unitarian Universalist Association. He was aproved by the congregation in June. Reverend Goheen will start his tenure with an in-depth examination of the formation of the new church. His look at the process will span two Sunday services, starting on August 1, with the sermon "Spinning on the Wheel," which will use the metaphor of a potter's wheel to reflect on the processes of formation in which the church, as individuals and especially as a religious community, is engaged. The service starts at 10:30 a.m., at Lewes Middle School, on Savannah Road, in Lewes. All are welcome, with no reservations of any kind. Call (302) 645-6334, e-mail uusd@juno.com, or web-surf to http://www.ce.net/users/mmahaffie/uusd.htm for more information. Artist Carlos Pascual Featured at the Blue Moon Endangered Planet, a collection of works by wildlife artist Carlos Pascual, will be featured at the Blue Moon Restaurant from August 1-15. Carlos combines his background in graphic design with his colored pencil drawing skills to create beautiful, riveting and colorful wildlife images. "The animal is what is important to me," he says with passion, "not the background." Sometimes he reduces the entire image to only the eyes or the texture of the skin. Born and raised in Argentina, Carlos grew up surrounded by nature and animals and their care and development. He says that it is for this reason that he is an "animalist in art. I am happy," he says, "to express through my drawings all these sensations, fur textures, feathers, colors and experiences that I lived in my youth." Carlos' passion for his subjects is evidenced when he talks about the somber reality that faces many of these creatures today. "Their extinction," he says, "is the result of cruelty and ignorance from those who believe that they have a right to rule the planet." He hopes that the expressions on the faces of the animals in his drawings will make others reconsider the killing of wildlife and the destruction of their habitat. In Argentina, Carlos' work has been widely shown and honored, and he is delighted to be able to have the opportunity to show it in Rehoboth. Since 1985 he has worked to create his own personal technique which he eagerly shares with art students. Carlos is also donating a piece to the SUNDANCE 99 Auction on Labor Day Weekend. The opening reception is August 8, from 3-5 p.m. at the Blue Moon, 35 Baltimore Avenue in Rehoboth. |
LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 9, No. 10, July 30, 1999 |